Question

I placed a custom php.ini file in my public_html folder:

Now browsing example.com/phpinfo.php says the new config works:

However, Joomla’s still not using the new config. When you go to Joomla’s Admin area > Site > System Information > PHP Information it still says 2M.

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

This link stipulates that the 6th block on the PHP Information page (shown in your question) displays the path to the php.ini used by the Joomla installation.

Link: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=350630

A good point mentionned again in the Joomla forum post from the link is that if you’re on a shared host, you typically don’t have access to the php.ini file. Still, someone mentionned this:

You can create php.ini at Joomla Directory. I do it usually.

Perhaps you can try that alternative? Is your public_html folder the top level Joomla installation folder?

EDIT: Someone mentionned that he had the same exact problem you have (upload size), and this is what he did:

I found that my host said that the php.ini need to be where the script was ran.
In this case for media manager it had a limit of 2mb.
Reason for this was uploading large files Acrobat PDF
I simply place a php.ini file into the administration folder of Joomla 1.5. Upon this PHP recognized the new php settings. Here are the php.ini file i created:

 register_globals = Off  
 upload_max_filesize = 30M  
 post_max_size = 30M 
 memory_limit = 30M  
 upload_tmp_dir = 30M  
 max_execution_time = 180

Again coming from the Joomla forums post in the provided link. You can replace the 30M with whatever value you need.