Big uploads required for web server

[gutlass]

I will be working on a large image database in the upcoming weeks, what I'm wondering is without being the system admin for a web server how can you expect to exceed the max_filesize_upload and max_post_limit etc... if you have a site that is hosted somewhere else and odds are that they are using the defaut values in the php.ini file. (2 megs)

Does anyone know any places that let you increase the upload ammount for you accounts for PHP?

Any info would be great.

[MrAlaska]

PHP supports FTP, I might give that a try. It is coded quite a bit different, but the differences would be transparent to the user. I needed to use an FTP solution to get around some permission issues but I never tried a large upload so I couldn't tell you for positive.

[gutlass]

I'm pretty sure that I'll still run into max_post_size problems.

🙁

[Hipster]

I had (actually I still do) the same problem. I asked my ISP, and they told me it would be possible to work around these restrictions by creating a .htaccess -file. It allows you to set the max_filesize_upload, max_post_limit, max_execution_time etc by your self. Unfortunately my problems still exist, as I can't upload any files bigger than 1 meg (dispite the fact that the servers max_filesize_upload in their php.ini is 2 megs...).

Anyone experienced the same problem?