How to edit wp-condig.php file in DigitalOcean?

Hi @vamsisnorkler,

In order to increase the upload size of your WordPress installation, you need to edit the php.ini of your Droplet and increase two values - upload_max_filesize and post_max_size.

If you do not know how to access your php.ini, SSH to your Droplet get into your website’s directory:

cd /path/to/website
touch info.php

Once you create the info.php file, open it and type in the following:

<?php phpinfo();

Save the file and exit. Next open it in your browser like so - https://example.com/info.php

where example.com is your domain name.

In there you’ll see the loaded configuration path. Once you see it, copy it and in your SSH type in

nano /the/copied/path/of/php.ini

In there increase the values of both upload_max_filesize and post_max_size. Once done, save the file and exit.

One last thing to do is restart Apache

service apache2 restart

That should be it.

Hello @vamsisnorkler

This question was answered some time ago in the community, I’ll leave the link to the question below

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/increase-max-filesize-for-wordpress-files-one-click-installation

@Sternenfisch

WordPress relies on your PHP configuration, so if PHP isn’t configured to allow uploads of that size, WordPress will throw an error.

You’ll want to modify your PHP’s php.ini file and change:

upload_max_filesize

and

post_max_size

The defaults are 2MB and 8MB, so we can adjust those to something higher for your needs. I’d set them as:

upload_max_size = 64M

and

post_max_size = 96M

If you’re using NGINX instead of Apache, there’s a variable in NGINX’s main configuration file that you may also need to change as it also limits the size of uploads, that’d be:

client_max_body_size

You’d need to define that and set it to 64M as well.

client_max_body_size 64m;

You’d then restart Apache, or restart both NGINX and PHP-FPM. It just depends on which you’re using.

Regards

Thanks for your responses.