#17606 [Com]: File upload fails on large files

ID: 17606 Comment by: mlampard@excite.com Reported By: luimarma@iti.upv.es Status: Closed Bug Type: HTTP related Operating System: RedHat 7.3 PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: I think you closed this "bug" prematurely! I have two very similar machines - both running PHP 4.2.3 and apache 1.3.26 on Redhat Linux 2.4.7-10 (7.1). I have an upload script and can upload ANY size file to one machine, but am limited to about 9mb on the other box. The php.ini and httpd.conf files are identical (actually, I swapped them over just for the hell of it). I've even swapped the libphp4.so files in the apache libexec directory, between boxes! If this isn't a bug, why does the upload work flawlessly on one machine, but not the other? It will not write to the /tmp directory (or any directory, no matter what I set upload_tmp_dir to) on the one box, but does on the other. Permissions and apache user/group are identical across boxes. It has me stumped! It should either work on both, or neither! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-10 03:24:45] luimarma@iti.upv.es Well, I have been doing more tests and it seems that the system memory that is being used is for the catching of the filesystem. I dont know if it is a good thing that so many memory is eaten just for file catching but this is an operating system issue and not php related bug so If everyone agrees I close the bug. Regarding last message from Dreoth@houston.rr.com, did you double check the values for the php.ini file, related with post and file uploading? Remenber that post limit should be at least filesize+size of php script. memory_limit = ?? post_max_size = ?? file_uploads = On upload_max_filesize = ?? allow_url_fopen = On ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-08 00:51:26] Dreoth@houston.rr.com I'm using debian with a packaged release of 4.2.1 I'm having the same problem with large uploads, 12 MB files. It will upload to the tmp directory, but fails to move it out of there to where I desire. It eats system memory as well. I've tried moving the uploaded file to a directory (checked the permissions so on and so forth) as well as moving the uploaded file into a mysql database as binary information. Nothing works. It uploads but wont do anything with it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-06 05:58:13] luimarma@iti.upv.es Yes, I am using php-4.2.1, I have been doing tests with very big files, my current parameters regarding uploads in php.ini are the following: memory_limit = 8M post_max_size = 700M file_uploads = On upload_max_filesize = 700M allow_url_fopen = On When I try to upload a 400M file the web server starts writing it in the tmp dir but it also eats the system memory in the same amount so it can only handle properly one big upload at a time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-06 05:58:08] luimarma@iti.upv.es Yes, I am using php-4.2.1, I have been doing tests with very big files, my current parameters regarding uploads in php.ini are the following: memory_limit = 8M post_max_size = 700M file_uploads = On upload_max_filesize = 700M allow_url_fopen = On When I try to upload a 400M file the web server starts writing it in the tmp dir but it also eats the system memory in the same amount so it can only handle properly one big upload at a time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-06 05:36:44] sesser@php.net Are you sure you are using php 4.2.1 ? Since php 4.2.0, uploaded files aren't stored in memory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17606 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17606&edit=1