{"id":557,"date":"2025-05-28T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/?p=557"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:33:57","slug":"how-increase-maximum-upload-file-size-via-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-increase-maximum-upload-file-size-via-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Maximum Upload File Size via cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If WordPress or another application says a file is too large to upload, raise the PHP upload limit. You can do this yourself in cPanel, and the change applies immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Raise the limit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> In cPanel, open <strong>Select PHP Version<\/strong> in the <strong>Software<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Increase-Maximum-Upload-File-Size-via-cPanel.png\" alt=\"To increase the upload file size in cPanel, go to Select PHP Version under the Software section.\" class=\"wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Increase-Maximum-Upload-File-Size-via-cPanel.png 612w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Increase-Maximum-Upload-File-Size-via-cPanel-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2.<\/strong> Click the <strong>Options<\/strong> tab and scroll down to these settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"811\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/upload-file-size-in-cPanel.png\" alt=\"Click Options, then scroll down to adjust upload_max_filesize, post_max_size, memory_limit, max_execution_time, and\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/upload-file-size-in-cPanel.png 811w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/upload-file-size-in-cPanel-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/upload-file-size-in-cPanel-768x580.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Setting<\/th><th>What to set<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>upload_max_filesize<\/td><td>The largest single file you need to upload<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>post_max_size<\/td><td>The same value as upload_max_filesize, or higher<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>memory_limit<\/td><td>Raise it if large uploads stop with a memory error<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>max_execution_time and max_input_time<\/td><td>Raise them if slow uploads stop before they finish<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> Each value is saved as soon as you change it. Reload the upload page and try again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If the file is still too large<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Upload very large files, such as backups, with File Manager or FTP instead of through WordPress. See <a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-upload-your-website-files-to-your-cpanel-using-file-manager-and-ftp\/\">How to Upload Your Website Files to cPanel Using File Manager and FTP<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If your domain uses the Cloudflare proxy, uploads through the browser are limited to about 100 MB whatever your PHP settings are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading yg-related-title\">Related guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list yg-related\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/php-settings-version-extensions-limits\/\">PHP Settings: Version, Extensions, Upload Size and Memory Limit<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-upload-your-website-files-to-your-cpanel-using-file-manager-and-ftp\/\">How to Upload Your Website Files to cPanel Using File Manager and FTP<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-create-database-and-import-your-filelike-sql-filein-cpanel\/\">How to Create a Database and Import an SQL File in cPanel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If WordPress says a file is too large to upload, raise the limit yourself in cPanel: open Select PHP Version, then Options, and adjust upload_max_filesize and post_max_size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}