File Upload Error — What Does This Mean?

  • Hi Gang!

    This is my first post to the WP Support Forum, so please forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere–I did search and was unable to find an answer to my particular problem, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Working on a WP site for a client who wants to use the File Upload feature to upload Video content to his site. In setting up the site I have done the following:

    1)Enabled File Upload by CHMOD default dir to 777.

    2)Changed max file size to an ungodly number (100,000,000 KB).

    3)Changed allowed filetypes to include necessary file types.

    When I try to upload anything over 2MB I get the following error:

    Warning: copy(): Unable to access in /home/virtual/site523/fst/var/www/html/wp-admin/upload.php on line 170
    Couldn’t upload your file to /home/virtual/site523/fst/var/www/html/wp-content/creepygirlballs.mov.

    I checked the following:

    1) upload.php is on the server and does exist.

    2) Necessary files referenced on line 170 are there.

    Does anyone know what is causing this problem? The client would like the site up by the end of this week, and I am scratching my head trying to figure it out.

    Is there a max file size that WordPress, or even PHP can handle as far as file uploads? Most of the files the client will be uploading are in the 5-6MB range.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    KonaFan

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  • I’m dying to know what creepygirlballs is….

    I can’t say why that’d be a problem, and would just work around with FTP. But that’s probably not gonna work for the client.

    (sorry)

    The 2meg limit is a hosting one – chat to them ??

    Thread Starter konafan

    (@konafan)

    Hmm…OK, turned off the client’s disk quota (was set well above 2MB) on the server. On upload I get the same error as before.

    Anything else it could be? FTP may be the only workaround at this point, but like you say, not ideal for the client.

    This was probably tried arleady, but have you atually tested FTP with one of those big files? You never know what your host is up to.

    Thread Starter konafan

    (@konafan)

    Yes, I was able to successfullly FTP a 5, 6, and 8 meg file using Transmit on a Mac and again using differnt files of same size using WS-FTP on Windoze

    I’m having the same exact problem. Find a solution? I’m using mediatemple as my server, no problems with other uploader applications…

    it’s a php limit!
    talk to your host or change your php security settings.

    and tell us what creepygirlballs are, please ??

    andreas

    I’m hosted at media temple and I have the same problem! I cant upload files > 2mb

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