Plug-In Upload File Size is over 2MB

I have already solved this problem and wanted to share the fix with forum to save someone else some time.

My webhost is GoDaddy.com and experienced the following error when uploading plug-ins larger than 2MB;

“”The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.””

The new version of cPanel and PHP utilizes some of the xxx.ini files differently and are also in different locations than previous posts regarding this issue had noted.

Working with godaddy.com technical support, they were able to help with the following file name and content to fix this problem;

From within cPanel, navigate to “File Manager” then to “puplic_html” and find the file .user.ini

If .user.ini is not found in the public_html root directory then create a new file and name it .user.ini and click create. be sure to get the period before user as well as period between user and ini then open the file with an editor and copy/paste the following code into the body of the file;

# BEGIN Increase Max Upload Size
upload_max_filesize = 20M
post_max_size = 20M
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 300
# END Increase Max Upload Size

Save and exit the file and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps!
Doug
https://www.sqdcme.com