How to increase file upload size (.user.ini is readonly?)

[Anastasia]

I am running AIO that I just instlled (latest version).
My sync is erroring saying “There is insufficient space available on the server for some upload” The drive where Nextcloud and it’s data directory are is only 4% full, so the space on the hard drive is not the issue.

I did a google and maybe it’s the file upload size that’s the issue?
This right here:

Uploading big files > 512MB — Nextcloud latest Administration Manual...

Says to edit .user.ini file. I’m assuming it’s on the nextcloud-aio-apache container?
So I go into the container as root (tried not as root also didn’t work), do vi /pathtoinifile/.user.ini, update it but it won’t save because it’s read-only.

What do?

[Andi29]

Hi, in nextcloud with apache2 webserver:

sudo nano /etc/php/8.x/apache2/php.ini

search for 'upload_max_filesize=xxG

replace ‘x’ with your value
ctl+o enter

sudo service apache2 restart

hopefully it helps

[szaimen]

How to increase file upload size

Hi, @Anastasia , see GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.

[Anastasia]

It told me “sudo” was an unknown command. lol. That’s why I remoted in as root directly. And it was still read only, even when trying to edit as root.

[Anastasia]

Thanks, szaimen. Question: “By default, public uploads to Nextcloud are limited to a max of 16G” is this talking about each single file being 16g max or the subtotal of all files uploaded being max 16G?

[szaimen]

It is talking about each single file

[Anastasia]

Ok, thanks. It’s actually looking like my partitions aren’t allocated correctly, so it might ACTUALLY be out of space…
lol I love ChatGPT. It speaks my language: