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rjbathgate
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Mar 19, 2009, 2:17 PM

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Hi,

I'm having problems increasing the max upload size for an upload field.

Currently, I get the error

"file is larger than '2M' max size allowed by PHP (check 'upload_max_filesize' in php.ini)."

Within the CMS Admin, the upload field has the 'Max Upload Size' unchecked so to allow unlimited.

And our host has apparently updated php.ini to allow 10MB upload.

Looking at php info on the server, it does indeed say max upload is 10MB

However we are still experiencing the error (max 2mb) when uploading a 3mb file.

Is there something else (i.e. an overriding php.ini) within CMS Admin that might be overrriding the root php.ini 10MB setting?

Cheers
Rob


ross
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Mar 19, 2009, 3:16 PM

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Re: [rjbathgate] Max Upload Size - php.ini [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Rob

Thanks for posting! That's definitely an interesting situation. I am not exactly sure why you would be getting two different values for the upload max but I think it's going to be server related.

For now, could you log into CMS Builder and go to Admin -> General Settings. On that page, there will be a link that says "Show server upload limits". Click on that and tell me what it says for "upload_max_filesize".

Regardless of what your phpInfo is saying, this will be the value that CMS Builder is working off.

Thanks!
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rjbathgate
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Mar 19, 2009, 11:13 PM

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Re: [ross] Max Upload Size - php.ini [In reply to] Can't Post
It's working now...

not sure what was wrong, the hosts have done something and it works, so all good...

The server upload limits say 10 now :)

Cheers Ross


Perchpole
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Mar 20, 2009, 9:57 AM

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Re: [rjbathgate] Max Upload Size - php.ini [In reply to] Can't Post
Just to add my two-penneth worth...

I've encountered issues when trying to upload very large images. When I say "large" I don't mean their megabytes but their actual dimensions! Photos from my digital camera - for example - can be around 3000 pixels wide but still well under the 8mb upload cap on my server. Even so, CMSB falls flat when trying to upload them.

I suspect it simply cannot cope with the dimensions.

:0(

Perch


rjbathgate
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Mar 21, 2009, 3:02 PM

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Re: [Perchpole] Max Upload Size - php.ini [In reply to] Can't Post
According to host, this was the problem:

The settings specified in php.ini file do not affect your php scripts recursively.

This file has been placed in your cms folder to change the settings for these scripts.

So, they needed to put a second php.ini in CMSAdmin

Worth knowing for future!


Dave
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Mar 23, 2009, 11:30 AM

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Re: [Perchpole] Max Upload Size - php.ini [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Perch,

Web hosts can set arbitrary limits on what you are allowed to do on their server. Some set them lower than others.

We need enough memory to store the upload that is being received, and even more to process it and create a thumbnail.

If you've ever tried to compress an image in a zip file you'll notice they don't compress, that's because they are already compressed formats. So to create a thumbnail the software uncompresses it in memory which can take a multiple of the size of the file.

Anyways, the short answer is you can ask your host to increase your memory limit, or upload smaller images, or even try uploading less images at a time.

One last thing, if this is an ongoing issue for you I could look at if it's possible to use less memory while resizing images, which might help some. Let me know.

Hope that helps!

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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