Title: Serious issues with changing PHP upload limit
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Serious issues with changing PHP upload limit

 *  [jdavis45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdavis45/)
 * (@jdavis45)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-issues-with-changing-php-upload-limit/)
 * I feel stupid bringing this topic to the table again, since it has been posted
   many times, but no solution has worked thus far and I’ve been trying for days.
   I made a WordPress site for an English project. I have setup a self hosted server
   on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and installed LAMP as directed. Everything in WordPress is
   fantastic and I’ve only had this one major issue. I simply can’t increase the
   max upload size for media.
 * I have tried editing the php.ini files in the system at all of these locations:
   /
   etc/php5/apache2/php.ini /etc/php5/cli/php.ini /var/www/html/php.ini (this is
   my WordPress root)
 * This all failed to change anything.
 * I then tried using a plugin which created a php5.ini file at:
    /var/www/html/
   php5.ini
 * This also failed.
 * My last attempt was to create a .htaccess file at:
    /var/www/html/.htaccess
 * This had absolutely no effect either.
 * To be clear, I have restarted apache after editing these php.ini files and seen
   no result. I have even restarted the server to no avail. Any help is appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [jdavis45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdavis45/)
 * (@jdavis45)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-issues-with-changing-php-upload-limit/#post-6143993)
 * I’m not sure how I did it, but I’m now up to 8MB even though I set it to 100MB.
   Any ideas anyone?

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 * Last reply from: [jdavis45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdavis45/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-issues-with-changing-php-upload-limit/#post-6143993)
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