How to Increase Import Size Limit in phpMyAdmin

Question

Does anyone know if or how you can increase the import size limit in phpMyAdmin? Currently my server is limited to 50MB.

Please note that this is no

Answer 1

I had the same problem. My .sql file was 830 MB and the phpMyAdmin import size allowed was 50MB (just as shown in the screenshot). When I zipped the file to .zip its size became about 80 MB. Then I zipped it to bzip2 format, and I was amazed to see that the file size was compressed to just 12MB (from 830MB to 12MB!!!). As phpMyAdmin allows three compression types i.e. .zip , .gzip and .bzip2 , therefore I uploaded the compressed bzip2 file and viola.... it was imported to the database!!! So by using the right compression, I was able to import a 830MB .sql file into phpMyAdmin.

NOTE: phpMyAdmin import page clearly instructs that the compressed filename should be like filename.sql.bz2 . It should not be like filename.bz2 .

NOTE 2: You can compress your .sql file to bzip2 compressed file using 7-Zip software. cPanel also has an option to compress a file to bzip2 format.

Answer 2

If you have direct root SSH access to the machine you will be able to change the settings in: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini

Just change the line: upload_max_filesize = 50M

Answer 3

Change these values in php.ini

post_max_size = 750M 
upload_max_filesize = 750M 
max_execution_time = 5000 
max_input_time = 5000 
memory_limit = 1000M 

Then restart Wamp for the changes to take effect. It will take some time. If you get following error:

Script timeout passed if you want to finish import please resubmit same zip file and import will resume.

Then update the phpMyAdmin configuration, at phpMyAdmin\libraries\config.default.php

/**
 * maximum execution time in seconds (0 for no limit)
 *
 * @global integer $cfg['ExecTimeLimit']
 */
$cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0;

Answer 4

I had the same problem with my working correctly by doing the following

changes into the php.ini file

post_max_size = 800M 
upload_max_filesize = 800M 
max_execution_time = 5000 
max_input_time = 5000 
memory_limit = 1000M 

now restart for the changes to take effect

Answer 5

First you have to change values in php.ini file as per your requirements.

post_max_size = 1024M 
upload_max_filesize = 1024M 
max_execution_time = 3600
max_input_time = 3600 
memory_limit = 1024M 

Note - Change these values carefully. These values will impact for all of your projects of that server.

Now, If above solutions are not working, kindly check your phpmyadmin.conf file. If you are using WAMP so you can find the file in "C:\wamp64\alias".

You have to change below values.

Values already in file are -

  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 128M
  php_admin_value post_max_size 128M
  php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
  php_admin_value max_input_time 360

Change above code to -

#  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 128M
#  php_admin_value post_max_size 128M
#  php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
#  php_admin_value max_input_time 360

Now just restart your server, to work with changed values. :)

Answer 6

if you're using xampp, find the php.ini (in xampp folder itself), go to line 735 and change the post_max_size to the value you wish. ex: if you want to upgrade to 80MiB,

post_max_size = 80M

make sure to restart apache after changing the value.

That's it...