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How can I increase the upload_max_filesize in WordPress?

  • Posted on November 10, 2013
  • msahariaAsked by msaharia

I changed it here:

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

but it didn’t work. I am uploading a plugin of a size bigger than 2M.

I tried the .htcaccess, but I get a 500 internal error.

I have Ubuntu 12.04

Thanks

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hungnp92 • March 22, 2016

I follow your link and I fix it! Thanks because It work for me. Here is my way:

  1. using terminal (cmd) and connect to your server via ssh code
  2. type cd \ to go root folder
  3. type sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
  4. add after php.ini file
 upload_max_filesize = 32M
  post_max_size = 32M
``` => save your php.ini file

5. type : ```sudo service apache2 restart```

After the instruction - go to your WP-admin and Bingo :)
pablo • November 11, 2013

<pre>sudo service apache2 restart</pre>

alexdo • August 11, 2020

Hi, all

You can create a php info file in order to check the current values and check which is the php.ini file in use. Create the following file in your public_hmtl folder - phpinfo.php and put the following code inside it:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Then check for the current value of upload_max_filesize you can also check which is the configuration file - php.ini that is currently used and apply the changes there (if the site using the global php.ini file and you change the values for these settings this will make the changes globally for all sites). Ideally you would like to have the following values:

upload_max_filesize = 64M

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

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