php : upload large files ( Ubuntu 12.04 )

there are file size limitation options you can upload in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini  file.

In case of ubuntu apache with php5, you can change allowable file size by modifying /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept. ; http://php.net/post-max-size #post_max_size = 8M post_max_size = 500M ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. ; http://php.net/upload-max-filesize #upload_max_filesize = 2M upload_max_filesize = 500M

restart apache2

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

If you upload larger files without modifying above options, you will see the following error.

[error] [client 192.168.122.1] PHP Warning:  POST Content-Length of 10486037 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://192.168.122.216/upload.html