What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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rthonly2001
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What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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Hi, newbie in php and phpMyFAQ like to know what's the maximum file size allowed for uploads on embedded media?
So far I was able to modify my ini.php to 20mb and I was able to upload files as big as 7mb but I tried 12mb and 17mb and didn't work. So I'm thinking there must be a limit somewhere other than ini.php. Can someone help clarifying what else needs to be configure to upload bigger files like video.mov of 35mb?
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Re: What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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HI,

depends on your PHP configuration. Theoretically 2 GB are possible.

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Re: What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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Ok if 2GB is the max file size upload, why is 12mb not loading since I've have modified my ini.php to 200mb. Is there some more setting to change?

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; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. Default upload_max_filesize = 2M
upload_max_filesize = 200M
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Re: What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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Hi,

did you check

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post_max_size
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Re: What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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No I didn't, but now that you mention it I'll check;
This was on my ini.php

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; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 8M
now I changed it to;

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; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 200M
And tried again with a 12MB file and this time did worked!!!
Now my only concern is if charging it to 200M will affect anything else on the system? if not i'm good to go :P

Thank you for you prompt help
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Re: What's the Maximun file size allowed for uploads?

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Hi,

no, it just increases the size of POST requests handled by PHP

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