AWS Lightsail - Wordpress upload is too small

Question

Hello, 
I'm very new to AWS Lightsail. I used to use Namecheap and now I'm learning from scratch here. My AWS Lightsail is connected to wordpress, but wordpress is empty. I have my zip file with my files (from my site), and I need to upload it to wordpress. When I lick on Media, upload, the limit is 80mb but my files are much much heavier than that. I used SSH and nano to increase upload size but it doesn't work still. It still says max 80mb on wordpress. I don't want to use Filezilla. I want to do direct upload to wordpress.

Couldn you please help me to understand what's the issue with the upload size in wordpress? What should I do?

Thank you so much.

Angel

Answer

Hi,

Upload file size is the setting on the PHP level and depending on the implementation this settings can be passed differently:
1. Apache + mod_php
2. Apache + php-fpm
3. Nginx + php-fpm
4. something else

To adjust the upload file size you need set:
```
post_max_size = 200M
upload_max_filesize = 200M
```

You can do it for p1, p2 in your site root by adding to .htaccess (it must be allowed to override settings in your Apache config)
```
php_value post_max_size 200M
php_value upload_max_filesize 200M
```

You can do it for php-fpm (p2, p3) by editing your pool conf (e.g. `/etc/php/8.2/pool.d/default.conf`) and adding end of the file:
```
php_value[post_max_size] = 200M
php_value[upload_max_filesize] = 200M
```

I believe there are more ways to pass required variables, make sense to search for `post_max_size` and `upload_max_filesize` trough `/etc/` and `/your/website/root` where now 80M set and adjust there, because 80M is not a default value.

Answer

Hello Dmytro,

I verified in terminal parameters that I've updated. It shows:
post_max_size => 470M => 470M
upload_max_filesize => 500M => 500M

Yet, when I try to important my Zipped site file (which is 460MB) but it WP says "Choose a file from your computer: (Maximum size: 80 MB)".

Could you please help me further?

AWS Lightsail - Wordpress upload is too small

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