php 7 php.ini upload_max_filesize not working

Question

I have read many solutions on internet , but still cannot change upload_max_filesize value (upload_max_filesize always = 2M )

here is my loaded php.ini in phpinfo() :

Configuration File (php.ini) Path         /etc/php/7.0/apache2
Loaded Configuration File                    /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files      /etc/php/7.0/apache2/conf.d 
upload_max_filesize 2M  2M
post_max_size   8M  8M

here is my edited php.ini in /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

; http://php.net/post-max-size
post_max_size = 86M
; http://php.net/upload-max-filesize
upload_max_filesize = 40M

im using ubuntu 14.04,apache2,php7.0 (I have reset apache2 many time after each change in php.ini )

You need to check the path of php.ini, it seems you are making changes somewhere else. You can see the ini path in phpinfo itself just check for the row 'Configuration File (php.ini) Path' — Afshan Shujat, May 23 '16 at 02:25
i changed every php.ini file i found , but still cannot change upload_max_filesize :( — CuongDC, May 23 '16 at 05:58
`php -i | grep -i "upload\_max\_filesize\|post\_max\_size\|max\_file\_uploads"` is a helpful command that can help you catch that maybe whatever "ini" file you updated either hasn't been reloaded or might not be the correct file in use at all. — Ryan, Mar 01 '19 at 22:59
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48601191/illuminate-http-exceptions-posttoolargeexception#comment96669884_48601191 — Ryan, Mar 01 '19 at 23:25
I couldn't get a file to upload through a wordpress site even though I checked all php.ini files & did everything I could think of serverside. Turned out it was a wordpress multi-site network setting. /wp-admin/network/settings.php — ceotoolsuite, Mar 16 '20 at 21:13

score 50 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 03 '18 at 19:33

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I had a fix for PHP-FPM 7.1

Edit your php.ini in

/etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini

Make changes to whatever option you want like, post_max_size, upload_max_filesize, max_execution_time & so...

save & close file.

run

sudo service php7.1-fpm restart

It will work!

answered Feb 03 '18 at 19:33

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For me, it was this simple - and it's logical. We have changed PHP variables, not Apache2. So restarting PHP is all that was needed! – Brian Milnes Mar 12 '18 at 13:41
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Of course! You have to restart FPM! Thank you so much! Just needed to recall that – Srivats Shankar May 22 '19 at 13:12
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Thank! I am so used to running as MPM where all you need is to restart apache, but since switching to FPM (for http/2 support), I didn't realize that you needed to restart FPM directly. – adrian Nov 15 '19 at 16:25
In my case, I just needed to edit /etc/php.ini, restart httpd. I checked for the php process (ps ax | grep -i php) and restarted that: systemctl restart php-fpm This is on CentOS Stream. – imclean Jun 11 '21 at 03:58

score 24 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 14:58

I had an other fix for it. os: ubuntu 16.04 phpversion: 7.0

I created a phpinfo.php file containing:

<?php phpinfo() ?>

place the phpinfo.php file in the root of your website www.mywebsite.com/phpinfo.php

Navigating to it and lookup the line:

Loaded Configuration File : /etc/php/7.0/cgi/php.ini

Now you know what php.ini file is loaded.

ssh into the server and use your favorite editing tool (mine is nano) to adjust the php.ini

change the values to meet your preferences.

post_max_size = 128M

upload_max_filesize = 64M

Save and close the file.

Restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

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check the phpinfo.ini if the new values are as set.

and if they do you are set to go.

`/etc/php/7.0/cgi/php.ini` should be `/etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini`. There is no `cgi` dir in default php installation — dimitry_n, Feb 01 '17 at 21:21

CuongDC · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-21T10:28:38.627

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i fingured out !

in my loaded php.ini config , my error_reporting values is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_DEPRECATED-> this is wrong!, so i changed it to

error_reporting: E_ALL and then restart apache2 server, now everything working fine !

so please note : if php.ini have any error , it will use default value (which means upload_max_filesize always 2M )

edited Aug 21 '18 at 10:28

answered May 25 '16 at 03:18

CuongDC

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This was the reason. Fixed my case. – tggm Nov 16 '17 at 14:53
this worked, thanks. I think this is very unintuitive, i was very lucky to find your solution. – merodeador Mar 31 '18 at 15:08
@CuongDC thank you but I still need to see my errors, how can I do that? I still get 2M though I changed my value – Abeer Sul Jun 15 '21 at 12:11
@AbeerSul did you restart the web server? – CuongDC Jun 16 '21 at 13:02
@CuongDC yes but it didn't fix it, thank you I finally was able to fix here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67967282/why-is-php-not-allowing-me-to-upload-more-than-2mb-file/67967354?noredirect=1#comment120142756_67967354 – Abeer Sul Jun 16 '21 at 14:53
@AbeerSul gut to know ^^ – CuongDC Jun 17 '21 at 10:09

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '19 at 18:26

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For php7.2-fpm

Ubuntu php-fpm located at /etc/php/7.2/fpm so

cd /etc/php/7.2/fpm
sudo nano php.ini
Search for post_max_size = 512M and add your fav size that you really needed
Search for upload_max_filesize = 512M and add your fav size that you really needed
Save File
And Last DO NOT FORGET TO RESTART PHP7.2-FPM to restart sudo service php7.2-fpm restart

Thats all!

answered Sep 16 '19 at 18:26

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that sudo service php7.2-fpm restart saved my life – sanjeev shetty Mar 17 '22 at 05:04

score 7 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 27 '20 at 04:46

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I am using Nginx and my solution was to restart php-fpm.

Restarting Nginx didn't do anything.

sudo service php7.2-fpm restart

edited Feb 27 '20 at 04:46

Shark Lasers

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answered May 13 '19 at 15:47

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This worked for me! Thank you! I'm using apache and recently moved to php-fpm - I had no idea it was a separate service! – david_nash Jul 07 '20 at 00:55

score 6 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 22 '19 at 13:05

I also found that restarting the httpd service didn't pick up changes in the loaded configuration file (/etc/php.ini on Fedora 29). It's worth listing all systemd units and doing a grep for the string "php":

# systemctl list-unit-files | grep php
php-fpm.service

Restarting php-fpm did the trick for me:

# systemctl restart php-fpm

score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 18 '19 at 15:29

After spending hours reading forum I've resolved this way:

cd /etc/php
find . -name "*.ini" | xargs grep -il upload_max_filesize
./7.1/apache2/php.ini
./7.1/mods-available/better.ini
./7.1/cgi/php.ini
./7.1/cli/php.ini
./7.1/phpdbg/php.ini
./7.1/fpm/conf.d/20-better.ini
./7.1/fpm/php.ini
./7.1/embed/php.ini

change upload_max_filesize in ./7.1/fpm/conf.d/20-better.ini then

/etc/init.d/php7.1-fpm restart

now phpinfo reports: upload_max_filesize 10G 10G

Hope this helps.

This is the best answer when you are not sure about what version/config you have. — Yassin, Aug 28 '23 at 10:51

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 07 '19 at 09:58

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i also had this problem!

if you are using php-fpm service need to find php-fpm.conf and add line

php_admin_value[upload_max_filesize] = 100M

for changing other type of values

#just for example
php_flag[display_errors] = off
php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/fpm-php.www.log
php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on

answered Sep 07 '19 at 09:58

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This should be chosen as best answer for who ever run using FPM sock – Joseph Miller Jul 30 '21 at 18:05

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 15 '18 at 22:47

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Most people are forgetting to restart their php via the terminal that's why it isn't working, if you think you've done everything correctly be sure to restart your php & the server.

answered Apr 15 '18 at 22:47

Serhat Soruklu

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score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 19 '18 at 18:51

Yeah, Actually I forgot to restart correctly.

sudo service apache2 restart is not enough

first add the configurations to /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini and to /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini
#/php/ - then your php version here instead "7.1" ACtually one of these configuration file is the active one (if you want to see what use <?php phpinfo() ?> command in indextest.php file and check it on browser) Then change these parameters on each file with what you want:

post_max_size = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 512M

And then use following command to restart the php server:

sudo service php7.0-fpm restart #php<then your php version here> instead "7.0"

or

sudo /etc/init.d/php7.1-fpm restart  #php<then your php version here> instead "7.1"

Now you should be able to see the changes of upload size. Cheers !

as shown in here you can get to know more about the php server controlls :

$ sudo service php7.0-fpmstart # <- restart it
$ sudo service php7.0-fpm stop # <- restart it
$ sudo service php7.0-fpm restart # <- restart it
$ sudo service php7.0-fpm reload # <- reload it

`sudo /etc/init.d/php7.1-fpm restart` fixed my issue – db306 Apr 11 '19 at 18:10 — db306, Apr 11 '19 at 18:10

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 30 '22 at 10:28

create two different files in the root of your project(if you are a Wordpress user,it is the root public_html folder).one is php.ini & the second one is .user.ini and then simply add these two lines of codes in both files.

upload_max_filesize = 20M
post_max_size = 20M

don't forget to restart the server. and also make sure the user.ini file must be starting with a dot (.)

systemctl restart apache2

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered May 01 '22 at 11:37

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In my case I was editing the wrong one. It turns out I should mondify this /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini After doing so, it worked!

answered May 01 '22 at 11:37

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 01 '19 at 14:54

For those who have all the obvious settings mentioned in other answers and PHP file uploads are stil not working.

Check php.ini for open_basedir value. If a value is set (which it should be for security reasons), make sure that /tmp is included there. Or choose a custom value in upload_tmp_dir and set open_basedir accordingly.

Then reload the FPM service.

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Oct 10 '21 at 18:32

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I installed multiple versions of PHP on MacOS Big Sur following the steps here

I used command:

sudo /usr/local/bin/httpd -k restart

to load changes made to the php.ini file.

answered Oct 10 '21 at 18:32

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 11:48

open your putty or bitvise ssh client login your server

sudo apt update

After that

cd /etc/php/7.4/apache2/

see the list to hit command below

ls -ltr

output

total 76
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep  4 14:31 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72540 Sep  7 09:28 php.ini

to open php.ini enter the below command

 sudo nano php.ini

Move down Arow till not find the Below code

upload_max_filesize = 20M

change 20MB to your desired upload size Press ctrl+s to save php.ini and exit to the editor to command prompt hot ctrl+x after that to reload apache2 hit the below command

sudo systemctl reload apache2

Happy coding

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 07 '23 at 09:10

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For macos, check if you have a php-memory-limits.ini file under /opt/homebrew/etc/php/8.1/conf.d folder,

You need to update upload_max_filesize value in there too!

answered Mar 07 '23 at 09:10

Afjalur Rahman Rana

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