We are trying to make a one time upload as an attachment of our old old database in a zip to our admins/mods section for easy access. Ive increased the max size of zip attachments o 1GB temporarily to try to upload the file, but it still says its too large. IS there something i am doing wrong?
not sure what is the problem - obviously why not use external file host like Google Drive ..
you can also restrict access to specific people at the Google Drive
Did you checked your PHP file size limits? For just one file I wouldn't bother, just use a external system imo
It's likely a PHP Upload limit, they can be increased and/or disabled with php.ini. However as other people recommended just use Google Drive or something, just a note you shouldn't allow anyone except the server manager to directly access the database.
regarding the php.ini
the memory limit looks to be in range at 128MB...could it be the max_input_time is not long enough?
Quote:; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
; http://php.net/max-execution-time
; Note: This directive is hardcoded to 0 for the CLI SAPI
max_execution_time = 30
; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data. It's a good
; idea to limit this time on productions servers in order to eliminate unexpectedly
; long running scripts.
; Note: This directive is hardcoded to -1 for the CLI SAPI
; Default Value: -1 (Unlimited)
; Development Value: 60 (60 seconds)
; Production Value: 60 (60 seconds)
; http://php.net/max-input-time
max_input_time = 60
; Maximum input variable nesting level
; http://php.net/max-input-nesting-level
;max_input_nesting_level = 64
; How many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted
; max_input_vars = 1000
; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 128M
EDIT:
or is it this one
Quote:; Whether PHP will read the POST data.
; This option is enabled by default.
; Most likely, you won't want to disable this option globally. It causes $_POST
; and $_FILES to always be empty; the only way you will be able to read the
; POST data will be through the php://input stream wrapper. This can be useful
; to proxy requests or to process the POST data in a memory efficient fashion.
; http://php.net/enable-post-data-reading
;enable_post_data_reading = Off
; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
; Its value may be 0 to disable the limit. It is ignored if POST data reading
; is disabled through enable_post_data_reading.
; http://php.net/post-max-size
post_max_size = 8M
I could use an outside source, but i was hoping to put it on the forums.
Quote:just a note you shouldn't allow anyone except the server manager to directly access the database.
We all have server access. Our server is more of a joint server than a sole admin in case one person decided to go MIA. (whihc happened at our other forum). Speaking of which this is a phpBB database that we have collectively been trying to convert to MyBB to be able to open in MyBB. And its old from 2003-2012
upload_max_filesize is the value you might searching also post_max_size need to update for processing the post data(other then upload file).