increase upload filesize

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increase upload filesize

Submitted by skywalker on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 1:14am.

JumpBox for MediaWiki Discussion

If I try to upload files greater then 1.5M I always get an error message:

"This file is bigger than the server is configured to allow."

I changed values in LocalSettings without success.
I trtied to change settings in php.ini, but it seems that I do not have sufficient permisssions to do this.

Any comments on that ?

Hi, The admin user on the

Submitted by godber on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 9:38am.

Hi,
The admin user on the JumpBox does not have permission to do some things by default, but it can do things AS the privileged user (root) by using the sudo command. So, if you want to edit a file only editable by root you would put sudo at the beginning of the command and it would be done as root:

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

will run the command nano (an editor) as root. You will be asked for a password every now and then while using sudo, it is asking for the admin users password.

Another tip, if you want to do many things as root, you can run

sudo -s

this will give you a shell as the root user and everything you do will be as root until you exit that shell using CTRL+D.

This should be enough to help you edit that file ... but once you do edit it you will need to restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Good luck,

Austin

Fileupload is not possible

Submitted by skywalker on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 1:16am.

Fileupload is not possible for Files > 1.5 MB