# Php uploading huge (1GB+) files?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-uploading-huge-1gb-files/226835
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**Created:** [May 24, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-uploading-huge-1gb-files/226835 "2007-05-24T13:27:16Z")
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### Author: ![forcemorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@forcemorph](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/forcemorph)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-uploading-huge-1gb-files/226835/1 "2007-05-24T13:27:16Z")

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Hey all, I need some really technical info I can’t seem to find anywhere. I’m trying to make a script that will upload files up to 4 or 5 GB through PHP (it’s over local intranet). So far I’ve gotten it to go up to 1GB by adjusting all of the max size info in php.ini. It literally stops allowing uploads at files over 1GB exactly. The test server I’m using (and all my servers) only have 1GB of RAM. Could this be a physical limitation of PHP? I know PHP handles files in one big POST data chunk, so could memory be filling up and stopping the upload? (I made sure the memory\_size php.ini limit was huge.)

Any ideas?