The 'large file upload' saga continues

chblow

I've read many posts here about uploading large files using forms, but i'm hoping for someone to give me some big picture knowledge about what is and isn't possible.

Basically, i've built a content management system to allow for upload and exchange of video/mp3 files. I was using the copy() command, but the system was failing for large video files. So, after reading some of these posts, i converted to ftp_put(). Still failing with larger files due to browser timeout.

So, my question is.. Is there any other way to use a browser/forms to upload large(25 meg) files? The fallback is to have people ftp files via applet or ftp app and then separately fill out forms to register the content. Is this the only other option?

I noticed that the new Google video site has users install a separate app locally for sending files to their server. If only I had the Google programming team at my disposal, i'd be all set.

bastien

have you increased the browser/script timeout?

MarkR

You could use WEBDAV and allow them to send files that way.

But you'd still be at the mercy of your web server's maximum request size directive. Apache (and probably most others) have a default maximum request size, which nothing can exceed because the web server cuts the client off once it's read that much request (and returns an error response I think, never even running your script). The browser sometimes responds by retrying the upload, or gives the user a cryptic error message.

Mark

crunchie

Apologies if someone responded with this answer in a previous thread but have you set the following in the PHP.INI

max_execution_time
upload_max_filesize

I was having similar problems. If the INI is not configured in this way the server simply times out. Changing both these to higher settings rectified the problem for me.

_theworks

You will also want to adjust these...

file_uploads
max_input_time
memory_limit
post_max_size

e4c5

The items that theworks describe are those that need the most tweaking, in order to handle large uploads with PHP. This link : http://www.radinks.com/upload/config.php has a detailed explaination of all the issues involved.