Changes to upload_max_filesize in Ubuntu php.ini will not take effect

Question

I have been trying for two days to increase the max filesize for file uploads via php to 10M from the default 2M. I change the php.ini file that is referenced by phpinfo to

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem and solved it using these steps:

When running the following command on my server

php --ini

I got the following path of my php.ini

Loaded Configuration File:         /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini

I kept on making changes in this php.ini file, but none of the changes took effect. I then created a file called info.php in my /var/www/html directory and added the following code

Then I opened the file in my browser http://example.com/info.php, where I saw that the actual loaded php.ini file was in a different directory

Loaded Configuration File   /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

When I made changes to the php.ini file inside of this directory, all the changes took effect. In summary make sure that you run the phpinfo(); function to make sure of the actual php.ini file which php uses.