Wordpress php.ini settings

[woodp]

As best I can tell, the default php settings at Hawkhost are

upload_max_filesize = 50M ;

post_max_size = 8M ;

Wordpress uses these to determine whether or not to accept a file for upload. If you upload anything under 8M, no problem; but a 9M file results in an error that max upload size is 50M. Huh?

Turns out that Wordpress expects post_max_size to be larger than upload_max_filesize and when it reports an error, it reports it as being larger than upload_max_filesize, even though it's really only larger than post_max_size. I got around this problem by uploading the following php.ini to the /public_html/wordpress/wp-admin subdirectory:

<?php

  upload_max_filesize = 20M ;

  post_max_size = 25M ;

?>[/PHP]

Today I tried to upload a 14M file and got another error that my file was larger than 50M. I guess my php.ini file is overlooked and php has defaulted back to the system settings. Litespeed? Or a new version of php?

Anyone else having this problem with Wordpress? What's your workaround?

[Tony]

LiteSpeed does not read php.ini files. If you want to override any settings you need to do it in the .htaccess file like you would if we were running mod_php

So for example:

php_value post_max_size 25M

[woodp]

That seemed to do the trick. Thank you!