Kohana - controller specific .htaccess

Question

I\'m trying to set some htaccess rules for a specific Kohana controller. Basically its to do with form uploads. The majority of the site doesn\'t want to allow for large upl

Answer 1

What @LazyOne suggested is fairly easy to accomplish actually.

Consider this folder structure (only listing the most important files/folders):

application/
    bootstrap.php
lib/
    kohana-3.0.8/
        modules/
        system/
public_html/              <----- this is your DOCUMENT_ROOT
    .htaccess
    index.php

And consider you're using default Kohana's .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

<Files .*>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny From All
</Files>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

1. Now create an upload/ folder in your public_html/.
2. Copy both .htaccess and index.php from your DOCUMENT_ROOT to the upload/ folder.

3. Edit your upload/.htaccess: (only new changed lines displayed)

   php_flag max_input_time 86400
   php_value post_max_size 1536M
   php_value upload_max_filesize 1024M
   
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /upload/
   ...
   RewriteRule .* index.php/upload/$0 [PT]
   

4. Edit your upload/index.php and update all paths ($application, $modules, $system). You can download the whole tested package

5. Create an upload controller.

Additionally you could split index.php into two parts (cut after defining the paths) so you don't duplicate the whole file.

Setup like this worked just well for me and you can download my test application from here: http://d.pr/ioYk

Answer 2

There's also another solution. Again thanks to @LazyOne for the tip. This one is much neater, but it requires updating the Apache config directly (so you cannot deploy it on a shared hosting).

All you have to do is add this to your httpd.conf or vhosts.conf (inside <Directory> or <VirtualHost> as per Apache Docs).

<LocationMatch /massiveupload>
    php_flag max_input_time 60000
    php_value post_max_size 1024M
    php_value upload_max_filesize 1024M
    php_value memory_limit 128M
</LocationMatch>

Restart your server and it should just work!

Note, that although LocationMatch parses the /massiveupload as a regular expression, we cannot use ^/massiveupload (note the ^ char to match beginning of the string). This is because it will fail if you use a ModRewrite (which changes the final request url internally).

Note, you shouldn't make upload_max_filesize and post_max_size the exact same size, because if you upload a file that just reaches the upload_max_filesize limit, any other post data will cause it to exceed the post_max_size and the form submission will fail.