Forums / Developer / How can I upload large media file in eZ system
John Ellingsen
Wednesday 09 September 2009 2:07:48 pm
Hi friends,
I can upload any small media (datatype) file (150-200 MB) from my local PC to the apache server. But it doesn’t work for very large media file. I can not upload any large media file (e.g. 6GB- 8GB) in the webserver through the html form. I am using Apache 2+, PHP 5 and MySQL5+ and windows XP. My question: How can I change the execution of the media data type to be able to browsing the large media file in the local disk on apache server? Can I do it by changing the followings in php.ini configuration file? The current settings in php.ini is as follow: max_execution_time = 480 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds max_input_time = 240 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data ;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level memory_limit = 512M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)Any suggestion is well come!!
With regards, John :)NESRC
Steven E. Bailey
Thursday 10 September 2009 12:36:47 am
Webdav. That's pretty much your only option. You can try and play around with php variables - but that probably will never work well. Even if you got php to do the large file, then - if I remember correctly, apache has a 4GB file size limit unless it has large file size support compiled in.
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André R.
Thursday 10 September 2009 12:54:32 am
Webdav is still handled by http, so is limited by the same limitations.
There are two options, and they both involve coding: * modify the file / media datatype to let you browse a specific folder on the server, and use ftp to upload the file there** Create an extension similar to the ezmultiupload extension, but use any of the large upload clients instead of the YUI Upload/SWFUpload . Most of them seems to be written in java, and they normally split the file up in smaller pieces and sends one piece at a time. So you'll also need to merge them back together on the server.
Large file upload is on the roadmap for 4.3, but thats another 6 and a half month away, and there is no guarantee that it will stay on the roadmap or slip to the next version.* We do actually have code for this, so I'll try to clean it up and make it public soon.
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Gaetano Giunta
Thursday 10 September 2009 1:00:43 am
There is also an ezftp extension (in projects.ez.no) that might also be tried. Iirc somebody who tried it said it consumes too much cpu though...
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Jean-Yves Zinsou
Thursday 10 September 2009 3:17:48 am
Hello, i have integrated for a client a java applet that allows the user to upload large files to a temporary file on the server an then select them to be integrated to ezpublish as a standard file. Of corse an ftp server is needed, would you like me to submit it as a contribution , or have you find a solution ...
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Hatem Ounis
Thursday 18 February 2010 3:35:49 am
Hy all
Is there any news about large files support with webdav ?
i don't want to use ftp or any other protocol i want only webdav
and please don't answer me about apache or php limits i want the ez webdav limit of file size.
Thank you.
Friday 12 March 2010 5:01:23 am
I've created an extension to allow for large file uploads using Moxiecode's plupload www.plupload.com - I've been testing with file sizes up to 1.5 GB using the flash runtime. It's still in beta, but you can take a look at the code at http://code.google.com/p/ezplupload/