Increase upload size for downloadable products

[mlyth]

Magento currently has a 2Mb limit on uploads of downloadable products, but we have a few products that exceed that limit. How do I change the default limit to allow these uploads. I am talking of only 3-4 products that exceed the limit.  Thanks...

[Theis Corfixen]

Hi @mlyth 

I'm pretty sure its PHP's file limit not Magento's by default its set to 2MB, you can see more here:

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-max-filesize

Basicly you need to edit the value in your PHP config, and restat PHP. You can check the value creating a file with the code:

<?php

phpinfo();

And check this from either your browser or the server.

I hope this helps :-)

[mlyth]

Thanks Theis

Boy - am I going to sound like a newbie (which I am). Inherited Magento from our host when they closed our prostores platform. Desperately trying to learn new platform. Where do I find the php config and restart php? All I know right now is how to access the files via Filezilla, but a search reveals dozens of config.php files. Which one (ones) are the right ones? Sorry to sound so stupid about this, but I am frantic.  

[Theis Corfixen]

Hi @mlyth 

It sounds like you really don't have any sort of server administration access / experience. Do yuo know what kind of setup your Store is located on, if its managed you can get your hosting provider to help increasing this limit, which I would defintly recommend :-)

[mlyth]

Thanks.... will see if my host can do this. They have not been very helpful beyond porting over some of the old store data, as they are just learning this too.

[mlyth]

Got it done thanks to customer service.

[Michelebwalton]

By how much can you increase this limit? We actually have 1 product that is 2.85GB! I'm not sure if there's anyway we can manage this file in Magento.