Large file upload problem - and yes, I've tried the usual fixes

spidersilk

I'm having trouble with a file upload script I wrote which needs to be able to accept fairly large files (up to 100-200 Mb).

I know this is a common problem and I've done a fair bit of reading up on it, so I know about post_max_size, upload_max_filesize and all that. I'm in a shared hosting environment so I don't have direct access to php.ini, but my host at my request enabled htaccess override, so I should be able to override the global php.ini settings in my .htaccess file. But it's not working.

I've added the following to the .htaccess level in my public_html directory:

<Files hi_res_upload.php>

php_value max_execution_time 0
php_value max_input_time 0
php_value memory_limit 200000000
php_value post_max_size 200000000
php_value upload_max_filesize 200000000

LimitRequestBody 200000000
TimeOut 0

</Files>

But nothing's changed. I still can't upload large files. Does anyone know if there are any other settings I need to tweak or other approaches I can try to get this working?

halojoy

you get any error or what ???

spidersilk

Sorry, I should have been more specific about that. The server error log isn't logging any errors from this.

The three different browsers I've tested it in all give me variants on the theme of not being able to access the page that processes the form - Safari says it can't connect to the server, Firefox says the document contains no data, and IE says the URL failed to load.

But the page is there - it's the same one they upload the file from, it just reloads to process the form. It's only when uploading a large file that it says it can't connect to it.

Does that help?

halojoy

and php gives no error

// this line will turn on maximal reporting from php
// to put on top of any page, for debugging
// but I guess you know this already
error_reporting( E_ALL );

mrhappiness

what's the output of

echo '<pre>';
print_r($_FILES);
echo '</pre>';