for a few months now i have been trying to figure out how to get big file transers working with http_upload and PHP.

The main problem is that by editing my php.ini file the changes are server-wide and i dont want that, because i only want the changes for one virtual host in apache for a special app that we are developing for a client.

So i had to find a way to make changes to the php.ini via the httpd.conf in the virtual host.


<virtualhost www.foobar.com>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/foobar/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-foobar/ /www/foobar/cgi-bin/
User foobar
Group foobargrp
ServerAdmin webmaster@foobar.com
ServerName www.foobar.com
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
DocumentRoot /www/foobar
TransferLog logs/foobar
</virtualhost>


If you have PHP4 installed and running as a module mod_php4 simply add this into the virtual server

# For HUGE file uploads - Blake Gardner
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_value max_execution_time 0
php_admin_value max_input_time 0
php_admin_value memory_limit 8M
php_admin_value post_max_size 20M
php_admin_flag file_uploads On
php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 20M
</IfModule>
# End


it should all look like this



<virtualhost www.foobar.com>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/foobar/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-foobar/ /www/foobar/cgi-bin/
User foobar
Group foobargrp
ServerAdmin webmaster@foobar.com
ServerName www.foobar.com
ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
DocumentRoot /www/foobar
TransferLog logs/foobar

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_admin_value max_execution_time 0
php_admin_value max_input_time 0
php_admin_value memory_limit 8M
php_admin_value post_max_size 20M
php_admin_flag file_uploads On
php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 20M
</IfModule>

</virtualhost>

those settings are for 20MB upload limit - i hope this solves someone else's problems!

I just add this to my htaccess...

php_value upload_max_filesize 20M

Am I missing something something or did I misunderstand you?

you config must be different somehow, because that dosent work on our server. I read that using .htaccess to change php values only works in php 3.x and php 4.x you have to use the httpd.conf.

PHP Version 4.2.3

What about browser timeouts? Most browsers time out after 2 minutes from what I've heard. With upstream cable modem bandwidth being tightly rate limited, isn't that the real problem?

We haven't had any problems with timeouts and I've even upload 20mb through the browser, although I have heard of it...

Jeff

Was that upload over the local network? I'd love to find a solution for our cable modem users who want to upload large files via their browsers. :)

Originally posted by gambitdis
Was that upload over the local network? I'd love to find a solution for our cable modem users who want to upload large files via their browsers. :)


nope - to a remote web server - i even uploaded a 44MB file - with IE 6 and then with Mozilla 1.3A

The main reason of me posting this is because you dont need to change the php.ini - making the change server wide.

I think while i was reading Apache Docs, the MAX file size is 2GB - i might try it over our LAN at work and see how big i can get.

BTW: im running Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 on Linux