Question

I trying to use PHP’s file upload abilities, but when I try to upload certain file sizes (9MB for example) it’s not going through. Smaller files goes fine.

Even when I set error reporting to be on “E_ALL” and try and upload a bigger file. I don’t see any error message.

I have tried setting these lines at the top of the PHP script that uploads the files but still no go:

ini_set('memory_limit', '96M');
ini_set('post_max_size', '96M');
ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '96M');

Answer 1

Take a look at the list of parameters for PHP and where you can set them. If I read that list correctly, post_max_size and upload_max_filesize can only be set in php.ini, not via ini_set.

Set those values in the appropriate php.ini (there are different ones for CLI and mod_php), or if you don’t have access to the main php.ini create a php.ini in your folder.

To check if the settings work, create a phpinfo file and check the values.