Title: Uploading Dowloaded Theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Uploading Dowloaded Theme

 *  Resolved [sp7cn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sp7cn/)
 * (@sp7cn)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-dowloaded-theme/)
 * Hi, I’m having trouble uploading a paid-for downloaded theme and get this error:“
   The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini”. I have
   researched through forums and am hitting more road blocks because
 * 1) My host server does not connect to an FTP client
    2) I cannot find the php.
   ini or hidden .htaccess in which to change the upload max file size and post 
   max size from the default 2MB to at least 10 MB (because the theme is 8.6MB).
 * So does anyone know how I can double-check for my .htaccess file (on mac) or 
   how to create one?
 * Thank you very much, all help is appreciated

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 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-dowloaded-theme/#post-4975694)
 * Unless you’re using your own computer as a server, the files you need to change
   are on the hosting company’s servers. You would be best served contacting your
   hosting company and asking them to increase your max file size.
 *  Thread Starter [sp7cn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sp7cn/)
 * (@sp7cn)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-dowloaded-theme/#post-4975896)
 * hm I had to create the .htaccess file (after checking that there was no previous
   version) and used
 * php_value upload_max_filesize 15M
    php_value post_max_size 15M
 * then was able to open my theme.zip. Logged out and back in to my dashboard and
   it was there in the list of available themes to activate

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [php limit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-limit/)
 * [upload theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload-theme/)

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 * Last reply from: [sp7cn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sp7cn/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-dowloaded-theme/#post-4975896)
 * Status: resolved

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