Tuesday, May 4, 2010

How to change the max upload size for Moodle

These instructions will depend on your OS, and moodle version.

Our Moodle installation:
Cent OS 5.4
Apache v2.2.3
MySQL v5.0.77
PHP v5.1
Moodle v1.9.8

In order to change our max upload size we had to change 2 variables in our php.ini file. The php.ini file is located in the /etc directory. I use the nano editor to edit the file.
Here are the steps:
  1. cd etc
  2. nano php.ini (opens the php.ini file in the nano editor)
  3. look for the post_max_size variable and change it as follows
  4. post_max_size = 30M (change the 30 to whatever size you want)
  5. look for the upload_max_filesize variable and change it as follows
  6. upload_max_filesize = 30M (change the 30 to the same size as the post_max_size variable)
  7. ctrl-x (to exit the nano editor)
  8. Y (to save the file)
  9. Restart your box
That should do it. When the server comes back up you will be able to upload and post up-to 30MB files.


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