AH00036: File name too long

[musicmaster]

I find the AH00036: File name too long error quite a lot in my server's error log.

I want to find out what causes these errors, but I can't understand these strings. And although they are clickable they keep you on the same page. The website is in a non-Latin alphabet so I understand that the string is encoded. However, I don't see a way to decode it.

With reduced length and anonymized the error message looks like this:

(36)File name too long: AH00036: access to /5855-\xc3\x97\xe2\x80\x94\xc3\x97\xe2\x80\x9c\xc3\x97\xe2\x84\xa2.html failed (filesystem path '/var/www/vhosts/website.com/httpdocs/5855-\xc3\x97\xe2\x80\x94\xc3\x97\x90\xc3\x97\xe2\x84\xa2.html')

I have two questions:
- how do I decode those \x values
- the link works. So why is it complaining? And how do I notice when there was really a problem?

[Nobbie]

- how do I decode those \x values

Quick and dirty: using echo command in shell with -e option. For example:

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echo -e '\xc3\x97\xe2\x80\x94\xc3\x97\xe2\x80\x9c\xc3\x97\xe2\x84\xa2'

But still makes no sense.

- the link works. So why is it complaining? And how do I notice when there was really a problem?

You cannot. Look into error log of the script or similar.