Upload file size limit?

Capn Trips · Post by **Capn Trips** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:08 am

What is the size limit for uploaded files in the file section?

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:13 am

I have been trying to determine this myself this morning. I have it set to 10mb but in reality it appears to be just 6mb because I can load a file that's under 6mb but I can't load one that's over 6mb.

I checked my server and I haven't exceeded the space allocation, so I don't think it's the server that's causing the restriction. I've checked the phpbb configuration database and I can't find anything there that would be causing it either.

So, until I find out how to change it, I guess 6mb is the limit.

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:33 am

UPDATE: I just found a hard-coded line of code in the pafiledb code that limits the downloads to 6mb, even though it lets you upload files larger than that. So I just updated the line to 10mb.

mdavej · Post by **mdavej** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:15 pm

Rob, while you're at it, would you take a look at some of the file search functions? The statistics button doesn't work. And none of the links after picking Top List work. They either return nothing or SQL errors.

Barf · Post by **Barf** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:48 am

Hi,

just tried to upload my latest masterpiece to the file section; everything works find without error messages, but the file does not show up. Since I succeed in uploading some smaller ones, I suspect the software rejected it due to the size (3338396 bytes).

Suggestions? To split the file in several pieces has a "convenience penalty" both for me and for downloaders.

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:43 pm

The upload size limit is set to 16mb, but it looks like the actual limit is smaller than that. Something probably got messed with all the crap that's being going on on the forum recently.

Post by **The Robman** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:29 pm

This time it was php itself that was limiting the upload size. With the help of my ISP tech support I have got the size limit raised to 8mb and I know how to raise it higher in the future if I need to.

Barf · Post by **Barf** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:54 am

Thanx Rob, now it worked!

Normally, if I exceed some limit I would expect some friendly (more or less) error message, instead of the content just going into Nirvana...

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:58 pm

blame the folks who wrote PHP for that one.

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Upload file size limit?

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Upload size limit?