XSendfile not working - PHP, Apache, Cpanel

Question

I have been strongly recommended to use XSendfile since we are serving quite large files from our server. The server is running Cpanel. Previously we were using a straight force

Answer 1

I hope this will help someone...

I was having this kind of problem: whenever and whatever -> 0 bytes

I solve this moving the

XSendFile On
XSendFilePath /var/1000italy/data/offline

from the virtualHost section

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot "/var/{{ app_name }}/web"
    ServerName {{ app_name }}.dev

    # here was the problem
    XSendFile On
    XSendFilePath /var/1000italy/data/offline

    <Directory "/var/{{ app_name }}/web">
        allow from all
        Options -Indexes
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/{{ app_name }}_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/{{ app_name }}_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

to the directory section

<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot "/var/{{ app_name }}/web"
    ServerName {{ app_name }}.dev

    <Directory "/var/{{ app_name }}/web">
        allow from all
        Options -Indexes
        AllowOverride All

        # HERE EVERYTHING WORKS FINE
        XSendFile On
        XSendFilePath /var/1000italy/data/offline
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/{{ app_name }}_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/{{ app_name }}_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Ciao

Answer 2

If you are getting 0 bytes it could be output compression needs disabled,see here for more. For the XSendFilePath not allowed here error that is a syntax problem with your .htaccess. Check it manually if you can to ensure it is in the right place per the documentation.