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My client's site is on name.com and in order to change the upload limit, I think i need to place a php.ini file in the web root. But Craft crashes when I add it. The site is fine when I remove it. Anyone know why?

They're uploading video and Craft is giving me the 8MB upload limit problem.

Changing the limit in the Craft config file isn't solving it.

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    What do you mean "crashes"? Do you get error messages? White screen? Anything in any files?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 2:59
  • It's the gray screen, with the copy "Service Unavailable. Our site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."
    – Brian Feeney
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 13:28
  • That usually just means that Craft is in maintenance mode and/or needs to be updated. What if you try to load the control panel?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 15:37
  • Loading the control panel with the php.ini file in the root gives me this screen: "Error error Craft requires the PDO extension to operate. The above error occurred when the Web server was processing your request. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Thank you."
    – Brian Feeney
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 16:09
  • Soo... looks like you need to install the PDO extension. secure.php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 17:31

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Checkout a few different log files to see if they can help out.

  1. craft/storage/logs/phperrors.log
  2. If you're running apache, the apache log files
  3. If you're running php on ngix or apache, the php log files
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I am no system admin expert, but depending on how PHP is compiled and running on the server (either as a module or CGI) will determine if you can use a php.ini file.

If the server is displaying an error message with the php.ini file, try adding php_value upload_max_filesize 20M to your .htaccess file.

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