Note that, when you want to upload VERY large files (or you want to set the limiters VERY high for test purposes), all of the upload file size limiters are stored in signed 32-bit ints. This means that setting a limit higher than about 2.1 GB will result in PHP seeing a large negative number. I have not found any way around this.
Erreurs classiques
La variable MAX_FILE_SIZE ne peut pas spécifier une taille
de fichier plus grande que la taille qui a été
fixée par upload_max_filesize,
dans le php.ini. La valeur par défaut est 2 megaoctets.
Si une limite de mémoire est activée, une plus grande valeur de memory_limit peut être nécessaire. Assurez-vous d'avoir défini une valeur pour memory_limit assez grande.
Si la valeur de
max_execution_time est trop
petite, le temps d'exécution du script peut excéder cette valeur.
Assurez-vous d'avoir défini une valeur pour
max_execution_time assez grande.
Note: max_execution_time affecte uniquement le temps d'exécution du script. Le temps passé sur l'activité qui apparaît en dehors de l'exécution du script comme les appels systèmes avec la fonction system(), la fonction sleep(), les requêtes sur les bases de données, le temps mis pour effectuer le téléchargement du fichier, etc. n'est pas inclus lors du calcul du temps maximal de l'exécution du script.
Avertissement
max_input_time définit le temps
maximal, en secondes, au script pour recevoir les données ; cela inclut le
téléchargement du fichier. Pour les fichiers multiples, ou les gros
fichiers, ou encore pour les utilisateurs sur des connexions lentes,
la valeur par défaut de 60 secondes peut être dépassée.
Si post_max_size est défini de façon
trop faible, les gros fichiers ne pourront pas être téléchargés. Assurez-vous
de définir post_max_size avec une taille suffisante.
La configuration de
max_file_uploads contrôle le nombre
maximum de fichiers qui peuvent être envoyés en une requête. Si le nombre de fichiers
envoyés dépasse cette limite, alors $_FILES arrêtera la réception.
Par exemple, si max_file_uploads vaut
10, alors $_FILES ne contiendra jamais plus de
10 entités.
Ne pas valider les fichiers que vous manipulez peut donner l'accès aux utilisateurs à des fichiers sensibles dans d'autres dossiers !
Du fait de la grande diversité des systèmes, nous ne pouvons garantir que les fichiers avec des noms exotiques (par exemple, ceux contenant des espaces) seront traités correctement.
Le développeur ne doit pas mixer les champs input
normaux et les champs de téléchargement dans une même variable
(en utilisant un nom d'input comme
foo[]).
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User Contributed Notes 12 notes
amalcon _a_t_ eudoramail _d_o_t_ com ¶
20 years ago
Nirmal Natarajan ¶
15 years ago
If using IIS 7.0 or above, the Request Filtering is enabled by default and the max allowed content length is set to 30 MB.
One must change this value if they want to allow file uploads of more than 30 MB.
Sample web.config entry:
<configuration>
</system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="314572800"/>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
The above setting will allow 300 MB of data to be sent as a request. Hope this helps someone.
adrien.nizon+phpnet at gmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
[Editor's note: to be more precise, MAX_FILE_SIZE can't exceed PHP_INT_MAX before PHP 7.1.]
Please note that the field MAX_FILE_SIZE cannot exceed 2147483647. Any greater value will lead to an upload error that will be displayed at the end of the upload
This is explained by the related C code :
if (!strcasecmp(param, "MAX_FILE_SIZE")) {
max_file_size = atol(value);
}
The string is converted into a long int, which max value is... 2147483647
Seems to be corrected since php-7.1.0beta3 (https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/cb4c195f0b85ca5d91fee1ebe90105b8bb68356c)
admin at creationfarm dot com ¶
21 years ago
The macintosh OS (not sure about OSx) uses a dual forked file system, unlike the rest of the world ;-). Every macintosh file has a data fork and a resource fork. When a dual forked file hits a single forked file system, something has to go, and it is the resource fork. This was recognized as a problem (bad idea to begin with) and apple started recomending that developers avoid sticking vital file info in the resource fork portion of a file, but some files are still very sensitive to this. The main ones to watch out for are macintosh font files and executables, once the resource fork is gone from a mac font or an executable it is useless. To protect the files they should be stuffed or zipped prior to upload to protect the resource fork.
Most mac ftp clients (like fetch) allow files to be uploaded in Macbinhex, which will also protect the resource fork when transfering files via ftp. I have not seen this equivilent in any mac browser (but I haven't done too much digging either).
FYI, apple does have an old utility called ResEdit that lets you manipulate the resource fork portion of a file.
dg at artegic dot de ¶
15 years ago
In case of non-deterministic occurence of the UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL error: The HTTPD (e.g. Apache) should respond with a 'Accept-Ranges: none' header field.
morganaj at coleggwent dot ac dot uk ¶
21 years ago
Here is another that may make your upload fall over. If you are using Squid or similar proxy server make sure that this is not limiting the size of the HTTP headers. This took me weeks to figure out!
anders jenbo pc dk ¶
17 years ago
A responce to admin at creationfarm dot com, Mac OS X and Windows running on a NTFS disk also uses a multi stream file system. Still only the data stream in transfared on http upload. It is preferable to pack Mac OS X files in .dmg files rathere then zip but the avarage user will find zip much easir and they are supported on more platforms.
bohwaz ¶
2 years ago
Please be advised that setting a large post_max_size or upload_max_filesize for a complete server or a complete virtual host is not a good idea as it may lead to increased security risks.
The risk is that an attacker may send very large POST requests and overloading your server memory and CPU as it has to parse and process those requests before handling them to your PHP script.
So it's best to limit changing this setting to some files or directories. For example if I want to /admin/files/ and /admin/images/ I can use:
<If "%{REQUEST_URI} =~ m!^/admin/(files|images)/! && -n %{HTTP_COOKIE}">
php_value post_max_size 256M
php_value upload_max_filesize 256M
</If>
I also require the request to have a cookie to avoid basic attacks. This will not protect you against attacks coming from non-authenticated users, but may delay any attack.
This setting can be used in Apache server configuration files, and .htaccess files as well.
tjaart at siam-data-services dot com ¶
19 years ago
Took me a while to figure this one out...
I think this is actually a header problem, but it only
happens when doing a file upload.
If you attept a header("location:http://...) redirect after
processing a $_POST[''] from a form doing a file upload
(i.e. having enctype="multipart/form-data"), the redirect
doesn't work in IE if you don't have a space between
location: & http, i.e.
header("location:http://...) vs
header("location: http://...)
===================================
<?php
if ($_POST['submit']=='Upload') {
// Process File and the redirect...
header("location: http://"..."/somewhere.php");
exit;
}
?>
<html><head></head><body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="20000">
Your file: <input name="filename" type="file">
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
</body></html>
===================================
This only happens if all of the following are true:
header("location:http://...) with no space
Form being processed has enctype="multipart/form-data"
Browser=IE
To fix the problem, simply add the space.
Hope this helps someone else.
tomcashman at unitekgroup dot com ¶
21 years ago
For apache, also check the LimitRequestBody directive.
If you're running a Red Hat install, this might be set in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf.
By default, mine was set to 512 KB.
oliver dot schmidt at drehsinn dot de ¶
18 years ago
If you want to use open_basedir for securing your server (which is highly recommended!!!) remember to add your tmp dir to the open_basedir value in php.ini.
Example: open_basedir = <your htdocs root, etc...>:/tmp
(Tested on gentoo Linux, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.1.6)
sebastian at drozdz dot ch ¶
21 years ago
It's important that the variable 'open_basedir' in php.ini isn't set to a directory that doesn't not includes tempupload directory
