If you have your own Ubuntu server running you may encounter the maximal file size upload limit in php scripts which is set to 2Mb as default. In order to change that we first have a look what the size actually is. In /var/www (standard www directory) create a file called info.php with the following content:
<?php // Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL phpinfo(); ?>
Then browse to this file via http://localhost/info.php (replace localhost with the servername if necessary) and look for the line
upload_max_filesize 2M 2M
which will show you the actual maximum file size. In order to change that open a ssh connection to your server and edit the file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini with
sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
search for “upload_max_filesize” with Ctrl-W and change “2M” to “20M”. Save the file with Ctrl-O and exit with Ctrl-X. Restart the apache server with
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
and visit again http://localhost/info.php to check if the maximum file size was changed.
While is may be common sense to some, for those people new to messing around with servers, don’t forget to restart Apache for the changes to take effect.
You can use this line to do so:
Thanks this helped me to upload larger extensions on local TYPO3 sites.
Thanks, helped me a bunch 🙂
I am migrating from using Fedora to Ubuntu and the PHP and apache files are in a different place.
You Could also add the other commonly changed one max_post_size.
I was atempting to import my database using phpmyamdin so had to change that 🙂
Bob
its actually called post_max_size
Hi, I’ve followed your very clear instructions but the php.ini file is not getting updated. I’ve checked the location from the info list and its the same. What else can I do? Is there another file lurking somewhere?
I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 and Xampp.
Simple and efficient –> excellent!
Great!! Thank you so much for this post….