{"id":11585,"date":"2022-01-13T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:59:36","slug":"increase-maximum-file-upload-size-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/increase-maximum-file-upload-size-php\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Maximum File Upload Size In PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this guide, we will walk you through how to increase the maximum file upload size in <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/php\">PHP<\/a>. The best way to modify the maximum file upload size is to set the values in the php.ini file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two directives in the php.ini file that you will need to change which are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>upload_max_filesize<\/strong>: This is the maximum size of an individual uploaded file. The default value for this is 2MB.<\/li><li><strong>post_max_size<\/strong>: This is the maximum size that a POST request can be. This value must be equal to or larger than the value specified for <code>upload_max_filesize<\/code>. It is best practice to set this higher to account for the overall size of the post request. The default value for this directive is 8MB.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To increase the maximum file upload size to 64MB in PHP for example you would enter the directives as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-apacheconf\">upload_max_filesize = 64M\npost_max_size = 96M<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>For the changes to take effect you then need to restart your web server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Versions prior to PHP 5.3 these values could be set via the ini_set PHP function at runtime. However, newer versions of PHP will not allow you to modify these values via the ini_set function because the two directives involved are PHP_INI_PERDIR. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/configuration.changes.modes.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being PHP_INI_PERDIR you can create a <code>.user.ini<\/code> file, add the above values for upload and post max sizes and place it in the same directory as the upload script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for reference, you can use the ini_set function like so in your PHP script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-php\">ini_set( &#039;upload_max_filesize&#039;, &#039;64M&#039; );\nini_set( &#039;post_max_size&#039;, &#039;96M&#039; );<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase Maximum File Upload Size Using .htaccess File<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your server configuration does not restrict you from overriding PHP values using a .htaccess file, then you can do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-apacheconf\">&lt;IfModule mod_php7.c&gt;\n   php_value upload_max_filesize 64M\n   php_value post_max_size 96M\n&lt;\/IfModule&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>There you have it! 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