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

service apache2 reload needs to be run as root, even if it does not appear to fail without root. Running sudo service apache2 reload works. This is in Ubuntu 14.04.