Enabling FTP on a locally hosted site

  • I’ve created a locally hosted WordPress site using MAMP (I’m on a Macbook) to upload podcasts using the PodPress plugin.

    Because my podcast files are larger than 32mb (the upload limit on WordPress), I’d like to use an FTP server to host my larger files and upload them to my site.

    But since my site is locally hosted, I’m not entirely sure what to put into my FTP client when it asks me for the server url, username, and password. My site’s url is https://localhost:8888 which only works when I activate MAMP’s local servers.

    Help, please?

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  • A few things:

    1.

    (the upload limit on WordPress)

    – this is not a WP limit; it is a limit of your server and can be set in the php.ini file, located at the path below on a default MAMP installation:

    /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.10/conf/php.ini

    – when editing, it is strongly encouraged to use a plain text editor. A popular one is TextWrangler from Bare Bone Software (a free editor that among other things, uses plain quotes (very important!) and has line numbers)

    – open the above-noted php.ini in a plain text editor and change the values for:

    post_max_size = 32M (enter a desired size, e.g. 128M) … this is on line 373

    upload_max_filesize = 32M (enter a desired size, e.g. 128M) … this is on line 481

    NOTE: you must stop then re-start the Apache server (use the MAMP control panel) for this change to become effective

    2. If the plugin you are using is this podPress plugin:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/podpress/

    Note (from plugin page):

    – Compatible up to: 3.5.2
    – Last Updated: 2013-3-19

    You may want to consider another plugin that is up to date and being maintained.

    3. Just to clarify for my own lack of knowledge on the subject, but are you using this local site only for uploading your podcasts to iTunes?

    Thread Starter jennynotjen

    (@jennynotjen)

    LyleChamney, thank you! You resolved my issue in the simplest way possible ?? Thanks for such a thorough and clear response.

    To answer your question, yes, I’m just using the local site to create an RSS feed to plug into iTunes! This is a bit of a dated article, but I used it as a rough guide to how it should all work. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/guide-setting-podcast-website-feed-wordpress-podpress/

    Thanks again!

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