Request URI Too Long

  • First of all, I can’t find a way to search this forum to see if this topic has already been addressed.

    Secondly, when using the Email Users, User Settings to do bulk updates, after about 100 updates (I have to step through the pages 20 users at a time and we have 500+ users to update) I get the message below. Is this a setting that needs to be changed for Email Users? In WordPress? In our GoDaddy domain?

    Request-URI Too Long

    The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
    Apache Server at virtualhost.184.168.51.1 Port 80

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  • Plugin Author Mike Walsh

    (@mpwalsh8)

    20 is the default number of entries in the WordPress table class I use to display the information.

    There is a setting to control the number of users which appear on the bulk user settings page. It is on the Email Users Settings page (Dashboard > Settings > Email Users). I’ve set it as high as 500 for the very reason you are describing.

    As for the long URL warning – it is an artifact of how WordPress continues to build the URL with successive uses of the same operation. Changing the number of table rows on the page will help alleviate it as will going back the Dashboard menu to the main (first) page of the table. The max length of a URI request varies from hosting provider to hosting provider.

    Plugin Author Mike Walsh

    (@mpwalsh8)

    When using a very large number (e.g. 500) you may run into max execution time errors. Again, this varies among hosting providers. If 500 causes a timeout, try 250.

    Thread Starter mnnaturistsadmin

    (@mnnaturistsadmin)

    Thank you. I set the number of rows to be displayed to 500, selected only those that not yet been updated, and all were updated just fine (285) with no timeout.

    Now I have 103 users in “Pending” role and these users need to have their mail settings turned off. Is there some way I can view only users with “Pending” role in User Settings?

    Plugin Author Mike Walsh

    (@mpwalsh8)

    No. The User Settings page doesn’t have any knowledge of roles nor capabilities.

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