POST Content-Length exceeds the limit

Question

I get similar errors in my error_log in php when users are uploading their files

PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 11933650 bytes exceeds the limi

Answer 1

post_max_size should be slightly bigger than upload_max_filesize, because when uploading using HTTP POST method the text also includes headers with file size and name, etc.

If you want to successfully uppload 1GiB files, you have to set:

upload_max_filesize = 1024M
post_max_size = 1025M

Note, the correct suffix for GB is G, i.e. upload_max_filesize = 1G.

No need to set memory_limit.