Increase PHP-FPM's max upload/post size

Question

I'm running php5-fpm under Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04. I want to increase the max upload size.

I have edited my /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini to have the following lines defined as below:

upload_max_filesize = 20M post_max_size = 25M

and I restarted php5-fpm and nginx but phpinfo() is still showing the limits to be 8M and 2M for post and upload respectively.

Is there anything I have missed here?

check if the php.ini path in phpinfo() is same as you mentioned the question — TBI Infotech, Jul 10 '14 at 05:55

score 58 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 09 '20 at 12:29

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Nginx

client_max_body_size

PHP

post_max_size
upload_max_filesize

And restart or reload php fpm.

Source: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_max_body_size

edited Oct 09 '20 at 12:29

mauliksompura

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answered Jul 10 '14 at 05:16

Tan Hong Tat

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Which file to put this in for PHP? conf.d/mysite.ini or pool.d/mysite.ini? – Jonathan Sep 07 '20 at 07:29
@Jonathan in my case, on Ubuntu 20.04, I put the PHP settings in `/etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini` and the Nginx setting in `/etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com` to only affect that single site – chrki Mar 29 '21 at 21:31

score 21 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 22 '17 at 19:08

Instead of changing php.ini file, I add all information in the nginx sites-available files. I see you got your answer long time ago, but this is the way I do it:

In my virtualhost under server {} block, I added:

client_max_body_size 128m;

Then in the location ~ .php$ {} block I added:

fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=128M \n post_max_size=128M";

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 26 '15 at 12:33

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I had a problem with restarting so I just killed the process and started it manually.

sudo pkill php5-fpm
sudo service php5-fpm start

edited Jul 26 '15 at 12:33

masegaloeh

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answered Jul 26 '15 at 12:18

Pszt

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This seems a comment on the answer accepted in 2014 – Dave M Jul 26 '15 at 12:45

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '14 at 10:01

The issue was with the restarting of php5-fpm. It seems there is a bug where sometimes some child processes are not terminated upon restart. I had to manually kill the processes with kill <process id> having identified them with ps -ef.

I was then able to fully restart php5-fpm which enacted my config changes.

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 24 '15 at 14:16

I know this is an old question that's already been answered. But I wanted to comment here for @harryg and others that come after me.

Your issue was with restarting php5-fpm being buggy. As of this writing, the issue seems to have been fixed, and restarting php5-fpm on ubuntu is as simple as running the following command:

service php5-fpm restart

NOTE: I'm currently running this version of php5-fpm: PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.9 (fpm-fcgi) (built: Apr 17 2015 11:44:58)

Hope someone finds this helpful.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 03 '19 at 07:37

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It sets the maximum allowed size of the client request body, specified in the “Content-Length” request header field. Here’s an example of increasing the limit to 50MB in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file.

Set in http block which affects all server blocks (virtual hosts).

http {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 50M;
}

Set in server block, which affects a particular site/app

server {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 50M;
}

Set in location block, which affects a particular directory (uploads) under a site/app.

location /uploads {
    ...
    client_max_body_size 50M;
}

Save the file and restart Nginx web server to apply the recent changes using following command.

# systemctl restart nginx

answered Aug 03 '19 at 07:37

Amit Kumar PRO

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this configures apache, not php – asdmin Aug 03 '19 at 10:55
No, this for php5-fpm under Nginx configuration. – Amit Kumar PRO Aug 03 '19 at 11:01
these are options for nginx's ngx_http_core_module. Definitely do not configure any php settings. – asdmin Aug 05 '19 at 19:03

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