Error uploading files larger than 100MB in Liferay Cloud

Issue

• Uploading files greater than 100 MB for enviroments on Liferay Cloud are failing
  • This occurs even after the Maximum Upload Request Size has been increased to accommodate files larger than 100MB
• When attempting to upload the file, an error message appears saying "Unable to scan file for viruses. Size limit exceeded."

 

Environment

• Liferay Cloud
• Liferay DXP 7.4 connected with ClamAV

 

Resolution

• The Liferay Cloud environment is set up with ClamAV by default
• It was determined that this issue is due to a size limitation on uploading files in ClamAV.
• Within the ClamAV logs, the following startup log can be seen by default

  • Limits: File size limit set to 104857600 bytes. 

• This setting can be changed by changing the following properties in the ClamAV Configuration settings (clamd.conf)

  • MaxScanSize 1000M
    MaxFileSize 1000M
    StreamMaxLength 1000M