Increasing upload file limits ?

[Tony B]

My hosting company has a default 2M limit on file uploads.
I tried to override this using .htaccess containing line
php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
But placing this in the upload script folder causes apache errors when
serving scripts in that folder. The error states something like "php_value
not recognized as valid"
In the end I created a php.ini file containing line
upload_max_filesize = 8M
which I placed in the folder containing the upload script.
This works ok but why ? I cannot find any reference to using this approach
to override global php.ini directives ?

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Tony B)

>My hosting company has a default 2M limit on file uploads.
I tried to override this using .htaccess containing line
php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
But placing this in the upload script folder causes apache errors when
serving scripts in that folder. The error states something like "php_value
not recognized as valid"

PHP directives in the .htaccess are only possible if PHP is installed as
a server module. With (Fast)CGI this won't work.

>In the end I created a php.ini file containing line
upload_max_filesize = 8M
which I placed in the folder containing the upload script.
This works ok but why ? I cannot find any reference to using this approach
to override global php.ini directives ?

Some hosts allow a custom php.ini, usually placed in the document root
or one level above.

Micha

[Jerry Stuckle]

Tony B wrote:

My hosting company has a default 2M limit on file uploads.
I tried to override this using .htaccess containing line
php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
But placing this in the upload script folder causes apache errors when
serving scripts in that folder. The error states something like "php_value
not recognized as valid"
In the end I created a php.ini file containing line
upload_max_filesize = 8M
which I placed in the folder containing the upload script.
This works ok but why ? I cannot find any reference to using this approach
to override global php.ini directives ?

What are you actually putting in the .htaccess file?
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[Tony B]

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Tony B wrote:

>My hosting company has a default 2M limit on file uploads.
I tried to override this using .htaccess containing line
php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
But placing this in the upload script folder causes apache errors when
serving scripts in that folder. The error states something like
"php_value not recognized as valid"
In the end I created a php.ini file containing line
upload_max_filesize = 8M
which I placed in the folder containing the upload script.
This works ok but why ? I cannot find any reference to using this
approach to override global php.ini directives ?

What are you actually putting in the .htaccess file?

php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
is the only text in the file.

Tony

[Jerry Stuckle]

Tony B wrote:

"Jerry Stuckle" <js*******@attglobal.netwrote in message
news:g5**********@registered.motzarella.org...

>Tony B wrote:

>>My hosting company has a default 2M limit on file uploads.
I tried to override this using .htaccess containing line
php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
But placing this in the upload script folder causes apache errors when
serving scripts in that folder. The error states something like
"php_value not recognized as valid"
In the end I created a php.ini file containing line
upload_max_filesize = 8M
which I placed in the folder containing the upload script.
This works ok but why ? I cannot find any reference to using this
approach to override global php.ini directives ?

What are you actually putting in the .htaccess file?

php_value upload_max_filesize 8388608
is the only text in the file.

Tony

Tony,

It looks OK. Sounds like your host has disabled it in the .htaccess
file. They obviously don't want you uploading large files via http.

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