WordPress issues
Damned thing won’t let me upload any new pictures. Anyone have any idea? I’m not out of room by a long shot, and i don’t even HAVE the php.ini file mentioned in the message i get:
“The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.
Back to Image Uploading”
Not browser specific either. Does it in whatever browser I use.
Php.ini is a system setting file for the server, not part of wordpress, so it won’t exist in your hosting space.
It is complaining that the file you are trying to upload is too big. The default value for this is usually 4 Megabytes, your web host may have already set it to more.
1st check the size of the photo, if you can, crop & resize the image to a reasonable size for web display.
You can probably increase this size limit, depending on how your web hosting is set up. Most of the time you can override this limit value for your hosting without needing system admin access to the server.
Look for a file named .htaccess in your wordpress directory on your hosting. If probably exists, I believe wordpress comes with one.
Edit it, and add a line that says “php_value upload_max_filesize 10M” (without the quotes). You can change 10M to something bigger if you really want to be able to upload even larger files through wordpress.
Once that value is set to a size bigger than the file you are trying to upload, and if your hosting company allows you to override that setting, you should stop getting that error.
It won’t let me upload a 1 byte file. It was fine a week ago.
Who hosts the site? you are getting some traffic and that might be causing some issues.
Wouldn’t there be multiple copies on a shared host? Maybe there’s a php.ini in your web root directory and it’s corrupted?
I bet they have it set up to fall back on safe php system defaults if the file is missing or something.
I’d nag the sysops about it.