Increasing the maximum post size

Question

There is a lot of data being submitted no file uploads and the $_SERVER[\'CONTENT_LENGTH\'] is being exceeded. Can this be increased?

Answer 1

You can increase that in php.ini

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M

Answer 2

There are 2 different places you can set it:

php.ini

post_max_size=20M
upload_max_filesize=20M

.htaccess / httpd.conf / virtualhost include

php_value post_max_size 20M
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M

Which one to use depends on what you have access to.

.htaccess will not require a server restart, but php.ini and the other apache conf files will.

Answer 3

I had a situation when variables went missing from POST and all of the above answers didn't help. It turned out that

max_input_vars=1000

was set by default and POST in question had more than that. This may be a problem.