IIS 7.5 Mercurial setup ignoring maxAllowedContentLength

Question

I\'m trying to setup Mercurial on IIS 7.5. I have a web.config for an application directory that is ignoring the maxAllowedContentLength attribute and I simply

Answer 1

As explained in this rant, IIS 7.5 introduces a default setting for maxAllowedContentLength in Machine.config, which will apparently take precedence over whatever you specify in any Web.config.

To fix this, open IIS Manager, click the server node, choose Configuration Editor, and expand system.webServer/security/requestFiltering and then change requestLimits/maxAllowedContentLength (which happens to default to 30000000 bytes). Remember to click Apply afterwards.