Changing the upload limit

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See the MediaWiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads#Set_maximum_size_for_file_uploads

php

Upload limit is configured in the php.ini config file.

To find it:

$ php --ini

To edit it:

$ sudo nano /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini

And the search for:

  • upload_max_filesize
  • post_max_size

and change the values.

Then restart php:

$ sudo service php7.4-fpm restart

Localsettings.php

$ sudo nano /var/www/html/wiki/LocalSettings.php

Search for:

  • $wgUploadSizeWarning
  • $wgMaxUploadSize

and change the values.

The values are written in Bytes, this page can be used to convert mb's to bytes: https://www.gbmb.org/mb-to-bytes