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Unable to log in to Plesk or upload files via Plesk File Manager or applications: The file is too big

 
domainsfile managergohtaccessjoomla

Symptoms

  • Unable to log in to Plesk: Plesk login page is returned in a browser without any errors or warnings.

  • When uploading a file via Plesk File Manager, one of the following error messages appears:

    The file "picture.jpg" is too big. Try to upload this file via FTP.


    No upload response

  • Cannot upload files in applications, e.g WordPress, Joomla, etc:

    The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini

  • Extension update fails, e.g Joomla:

    An error has occurred uploading this file to the server.
    The maximum allowed size of PHP to upload files is too low: This is configured from the PHP directives 'upload_max_filesize' and 'post_max_size' (locatable and configurable in your file 'php.ini' or '.htaccess').
    Unable to find the installation package

  • In some cases, the following error messages might appear in /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/panel.log:

    PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 90378782 bytes exceeds the limit of 67108864 bytes in Unknown on line 0
    ERR (3) [panel]: Forgery protection token check failed.
    ERR (3) [panel]: Permission denied.#0

Cause

Low values of directives post_max_size and upload_max_filesize are specified either in Plesk php.ini or in the domain settings.

Resolution

 

Server-wide

  1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.

  2. Open the file /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini in a text editor and specify limits for post_max_size and upload_max_file size in bytes.

    Note: The default value is 2147483647 (2GB):

    # egrep 'post_max_size|upload_max_filesize' /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini
    post_max_size = 2147483647
    upload_max_filesize = 2147483647

  3. Restart the psa service:

    # service psa restart

  4. Log out from Plesk and log in again to apply the changes.

 

For a specific domain

  1. Log in to Plesk.
  2. Go to Domains > example.com > PHP Settings.
  3. Adjust upload_max_filesize and post_max_size values:

    PHP Settings

  4. Click OK to apply the changes.

 

 

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