I am unable to upload WordPress themes larger than 2 MB in size; I receive the error message “the uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini”. How can I resolve this?
The default PHP configuration on an AWS EC2 instance doesn’t allow uploading of files larger than 2 MB in size. Change the default value of the ‘upload_max_filesize’ parameter in /etc/php-<version>.ini.
Single EC2 Instance
1. For a single EC2 instance running a LAMP stack, open the file /etc/php-5.5.ini (this file name may vary based on the PHP version) using your favorite editor.
$ sudo vi /etc/php-5.5.ini
2. Change the value of the parameter "upload_max_filesize" from 2MB to a larger size and save the file.
3. Restart the Apache server gracefully.
$ sudo apachectl -k graceful
Note: To ensure that this change persists across new instances, update the underlying AMI.
Elastic Beanstalk
This can be achieved with an .ebextensions config file:
files:
"/etc/php.d/99uploadsize.ini":
mode: "000644"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
upload_max_filesize = 100M
post_max_size = 100M
commands:
remove_old_ini:
command: "rm -f /etc/php.d/99uploadsize.ini.bak"
Note: Consider checking for whitespace problems using a YAML validator. The remove_old_ini command removes unnecessary backup files. The post_max_size is raised to 100 MB in this example because the default size is 8 MB; for more information, see Extending php.ini.
Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, WordPress, themes, PHP, ebextensions
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Published: 2016-12-27
Updated: 2017-01-05
