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uploading files larger than 4mb

hi,
I've got a file upload script which seems to work fine for anything under 4mb....But for anything over, it doesn't. I did a bit of searching on the net and found out it may be my webhost server settings....When I type phpinfo, the following relevant values i s what I get..
local value master value
upload_max_filesize 20M 4M
post_max_size 8M 8M

I've added the following lines to the .htaccess file in the upload dir to try to over-ride the server....
php_value max_execution_time 600
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 20M

But still no files larger than 4mb...Is that upload_max_filesize 4M the culprit? And is there nothing I can do about it?

Thanks....

armoghan

the abstract from last link

To upload large files, besides setting upload_max_filesize, you must also set post_max_size in php.ini or using ini_set() function. Keep the value to more than the maximum expected size of the upload. This is because, you may be sending other post data along with the upload file. For example:

post_max_size = 601M

This should be a safe setting if you want to upload files of around 600 MB (as specified by upload_max_filesize = 600M)

While uploading large files, you should also increase the values for max_execution_time and max_input_time directives. Else your script will timeout or timeout before being able to parse the entire input/uploaded data.

skylabel

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ok...I've tried adding the following lines to my script, to no avail

ini_set ( 'upload_max_filesize', '20M');
ini_set('max_input_time', -1);

Also, as said above, I've added these lines to an htaccess file...
php_value max_execution_time 600
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 20M

Also added a hidden field like so
<input type='hidden' name='MAX_FILE_SIZE' value='500000'>

Is there a way I can find out what the 'limiting' factor is? I was just wondering if it could be the 'master value' for upload_max_filesize, which presently shows as 4M....And it is the cut off point....It seems no matter how large a file I try to upload, it fails at about the same time, regardless of whether the file is 5mb or 10mb....

armoghan

Have you restarted Appache ?

armoghan

For bigger files better would be to use FTP.

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