Increasing the Administration Web Interface Upload Limit

The Administration Web Interface has an upload limit of 10 MB for importing user import or DPX files. If required, you can change this upload limit and enable the Administration Web Interface to upload larger files.

To increase the upload limit of the Administration Web Interface

1. Navigate to the Apache Tomcat installation directory, e.g \%PROGRAMFILES%\VASCO\IAS Web Administration\tomcat.
2. Navigate to \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes.
3. Open the struts.properties file.

4. Edit the struts.multipart.maxSize value.

   This value is given in bytes.

5. Save and close the file.
6. Navigate to %PROGRAMFILES%\VASCO\IAS Web Administration\tomcat\conf.
7. Open the server.xml file.
8. Locate the default Apache Tomcat Connector tag with the port=8443 attribute.
9. Edit the following attributes:
   • maxPostSize
   • maxSwallowSize

   These values are given in bytes.

   To set the maximum upload size to 50 MB:

   In struts.properties:

   struts.multipart.maxSize=52428800

   In server.xml:

   maxPostSize=52428800
   maxSwallowSize=52428800

10. Save the Apache Tomcat configuration file.
11. Restart the VASCO IAS Web Administration service.