Change the maximum upload file size

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I have a website hosted on a PC I have no access to  I have an upload form allowing people to upload mp3 files up to 30MB big  My server side script is done in PHP   Every time I try and upload a file  I receive an error claiming that the file exceeds the maximum size allowed  so I need to increase the size  My research on the web suggested changing the  htaccess file which I do not have access to  so that won t work  Others suggested that I should add a custom php ini file to my root which did not work  Any other suggestions

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many times i have noticed that site wit shared hosting do not allow to change settings in php ini files   one also can not even crate  htaaccess file at all  in such situation one can try following things  ini set  upload max filesize    10M    ini set  post max size    10M    ini set  max input time   300   ini set  max execution time   300

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Open the php ini file   Search keyword like upload max filesize in php ini   Then change the size of file  upload max filesize   400M  Need to change the max post value  post max size   400M

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the answers are a bit incomplete  3 things you have to do  in php ini of your php installation  note  depending if you want it for CLI  apache  or nginx  find the right php ini to manipulate  For nginx it is usually located in  etc php 7 1 fpm where 7 1 depends on your version  For apache usually  etc php 7 1 apache2   post max size 500M  upload max filesize 500M  memory limit 900M   or set other values  Restart reload apache if you have apache installed or php-fpm for nginx if you use nginx

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Non of those solutions work for me    already set to 32M by default  The problem is in most case max allowed packet  I am working on localhost and using MAMP   Here is solutions   1  If you don t have my ini  Add  --max allowed packet 168435456   To      MAMP bin startMysql sh     2   If you have my ini  Under   mysqld    Add  max allowed packet 100M   DONE

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I had the same problem  I have tried three ways that were usually suggested     functions php php ini  htaccess   none if which solved my problem  I am using godaddy and came across a suggested solution which was    got to Web Hosting  then Manage Under Software select Select PHP version Select Switch to PHP Options found on the top right corner of the table in font color  blue On the bottom most part  you ll probably have upload max filesize   2M Now  feel free to change it Be sure to click the Save button  Now go to your wp-admin panel  select Media then Add   Voila  Now you have a different max upload file size

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I resolved this issue by creating a file called  user ini in the directory where the PHP file scripts reside  this means any PHP script in this directory gets the new file size limit   The contents of  user ini were   upload max filesize   40M post max size   40M

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Well  I would like to add my 2 cents here   I m using shared webhosting and I tackled this problem many times  tried to resolve it on my own but to no avail   Finally I managed to resolve it through checking various web sources and contacting my hosting service provider  My questions were  How can I change php value memory limit in shared webhosting     How can I change php value upload max filesize in shared webhosting     How can I change php value max input vars in shared webhosting     How can I change php value max execution time in shared webhosting     How can I change php value max input time in shared webhosting   and many more by configuring or changing php ini or  htaccess file  I tried to change them but problems arose  Finally I contacted my hosting provider  and it turns out that I set my php to native  they changed it to php 5 6  here is their answer        Your PHP was set to  native  mode which means you can t override   those values  I ve changed you to just  5 6  so you should be good to   go     After that I connected my website through ftp Filezilla  also don t forget to make both your ftp service to show hidden files  and your local computer to do so  because  htaccess file was hidden in my local laptop and in my website  It was available in public html folder  I just downloaded it and added the following codes to the end of the file and then uploaded it back to the server    php value memory limit 256M php value post max size 256M php value upload max filesize 64M php value max input vars 1800 php value max execution time 300 php value max input time 300             Everything is working properly for the time being  if any of you overcome with some problems please write here and warn me so that I can change the above-shown codes  By the way  I also upload some pictures which shows the change    One more thing I almost forgot to mention ZipArchive installation on your shared webhosting service  I managed that requirement to tick by just going to php settings through my cpanel  click on php selector extensions and then tick zip section  that s all   Thanks   PS  I m open to good practices  and if you see any bad practice here please let me know  I ll try to change them  Thanks

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Three things you need to check   upload max filesize  memory limit and post max size in the php ini configuration file exactly   All of these three settings limit the maximum size of data that can be submitted and handled by PHP   Typically post max size and memory limit need to be larger than upload max filesize     So three variables total you need to check to be absolutely sure

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With WAMP it s all pretty easy     WAMP Icon   PHP   PHP Settings   upload max filesize   nM   n    2M  4M  8M  16M  32M  64M  128M  256M  512M  or Choose  custom      Service s  reload automatically   But  if you truly have no access to the server  you might want to explore writing a chunking API

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If you edited the right php ini file  restarted Apache or Nginx and still doesn t work  then you have to restart php-fpm too    sudo service php-fpm restart

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I also had this issue  and fixed it by setting this setting in  etc nginx nginx conf  client max body size 0    0  as in unlimited   And also  if you have a reverse proxy running with nginx  that server should also have this setting  This is what threw me off here

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You need to set the value of upload max filesize and post max size in your php ini      Maximum allowed size for uploaded files  upload max filesize   40M    Must be greater than or equal to upload max filesize post max size   40M   After modifying php ini file s   you need to restart your HTTP server to use new configuration   If you can t change your php ini  you re out of luck   You cannot change these values at run-time  uploads of file larger than the value specified in php ini will have failed by the time execution reaches your call to ini set   See the Description of core php ini directives

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You can also use ini set function  only for PHP version below 5 3    ini set  post max size    64M    ini set  upload max filesize    64M      Like  acme said  in php 5 3 and above this settings are PHP INI PERDIR directives so they can t be set using ini set  You can use user ini instead

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I have the same problem in the past    and i fixed it through  htaccess file  When you make change on php configration through  htaccess you should put configrations in  IfModule tag  other that the Internal server error will arise   This is an example  it works fine for me    lt IfModule mod php5 c gt     php value upload max filesize 40M    php value post max size 40M  lt  IfModule gt    And this is php referance if you want to understand more  http   php net manual en configuration changes php

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You can change it via an  htaccess file    htaccess files are stored in the same directory as your  php files are  They modify  configuration for that folder and all sub-folders  You simply use them by creating an  htaccess file in the directory of your choice  or modify it if present    The following should enable you to increase your upload limit  if the server provider allows PHP config changes via  htaccess    php value upload max filesize 40M php value post max size 42M

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Perhaps this should be a comment to  seanb123 and  Fredrick Gauss commenting on his comment  but for me in Drupal 8 1 with PHP 7 the file I needed to modify was located here    etc php 7 0 apache2 php ini   I modded probably four other php ini files  including the one my system called the  Loaded Configuration File   php -i   grep -i  loaded configuration file   and the one found on the info php page but none of them helped  The key to discovering the correct path was found on a site from 2012  They said the path   etc php5 apache2 php ini  was deprecated even BACK THEN but it gave me a clue where to find it  For PHP7 it s a little different than in PHP5 but the concept is the same   Maybe this will help some otherwise helpless schmuck like myself   That being said  the answer to the OP in my case would be that someone with admin privileges on the box would have to do it   The site that helped me  http   www evilbox ro linux remove-ispconfig-maximum-upload-size-of-2m-for-wordpress   This is also addressed here  Import file size limit in PHPMyAdmin  EDIT  the full text of my note to myself      In order to change the max upload size  edit upload max filesize and    if needed   post max size in  etc php 7 0 apache2 php ini  or in   older versions   etc php5 apache2 php ini         etc init d apache2 restart   EDIT AGAIN  since you re importing big files you may need to change the timeout for processing them  In my case  the file named   config default php  was found at  usr share phpmyadmin libraries config default php with the variable  cfg  ExecTimeLimit     300  I changed mine to 900 for a huge import  for instance  Afterward you need to restart apache

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I had the same problem and i created a  user ini file and put it in the directory in which the upload script was located  Than inside that file i set these these two values     upload max filesize   40M    post max size   40M   and it worked great for me

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As changing globally is somewhat risky  I was trying to increase max upload value for a single script big file upload php  For some reason ini set didn t help  After some reasearch I ve come up with this  Put it in  htaccess  unless name changed via AccessFileName    lt If    REQUEST URI       subfolder big file upload php    gt  php value upload max filesize 200M php value post max size 200M  lt  If gt   lt Else gt  php value upload max filesize 1M php value post max size 1M  lt  Else gt    Worked for me

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To locate the ini file  first run  php -i   grep -i  loaded configuration file    Then open the file and change  upload max filesize   2M post max size   2M   replacing the 2M with the size you want  for instance 100M   I ve got a blog post about with a little more info too http   www seanbehan com how-to-increase-or-change-the-file-upload-size-in-the-php-ini-file-for-wordpress

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