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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Unable to upload documents to Document Library from remote machine through web service larger than 3MB

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Christopher Lui

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When uploading documents larger than 3MB via web call, an error is thrown:

java.rmi.RemoteException: Akira_Functional_Requirements_v_1_6.1.docx.null
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:222)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:129)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)

Resolution

Make sure to use the correct Liferay version dependencies and that your document upload limit is set higher than the documents you are trying to upload in your portal-ext.properties.

Here are the properties to increase just the document library upload size:
dl.file.max.size=3072000
 
If you need to increase the document limit for the entire portal even more, use this property:
com.liferay.portal.upload.UploadServletRequestImpl.max.size=104857600
 
The numbers are set in bytes, so calculate accordingly.
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