Small PHP file upload size

Question

New Joomla 2.5 web site from gallery. Checking the Joomla extensions:warnings tab.

This following warning  (among other issues) is listed

Small PHP file upload size
The maximum file size for uploads is set to less than 2MB which may impact on uploading large extensions.

The system information for php specifies
upload_max_filesize 2M


With most hosts I typically would be able to change this to a value between 16M and 360M using a custom php.ini file in the root.
How would I raise this value on Azure?

Answer 1

See Faith's solution here

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazurewebsitespreview/thread/06e57c7d-187f-4468-8ab3-2fe7e28f1aa4

Answer 2

Thanks,

the fix of uploading a .user.ini file to wwwroot folder of the web site with the following following line;

upload_max_filesize = 8M

Seems the .user.ini is the Azure equivalent of a php.ini file. 

I also found that some settings will not change by using a .user.ini file, I assume the server has a limited range of settings which can be changed or those settings have hard coded max override settings.

Note: it can take 5 minutes or more for this change to take effect

Answer 3

I am not offering any fixes for this but It would be nice if you could add the PHP Manager Plug-in within WebMatrix to manage Azure hosted php sites. This is very important to the developer community out there. These are must have options that will increase product quality. With PHP Manager you can easily configure these settings. PHP Manager is available in the Web Platform Installer.