able to upload 28 meg file, yet php.ini limits posts to 10 megs. What is up with that?


To guard against our users possibly uploading huge files, I've got this in my php.ini file:

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 10M


On a server running Ubuntu Linux. The PHP version:

root@ldc310:/etc/php5/cli# php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Nov 28 2007 22:52:49)

I just uploaded a 28 meg file to the server. I have a PHP script that automatically resizes the images to less than a meg. However, I was assuming that the upload should have failed, before the PHP script ever had the chance to resize the file. How do I limit how much our users can upload? I really don't want the users to have the power to upload 30 or 40 or 50 meg files.

The server does have Plesk installed, which I know, in times past, has found ways to undermine the settings in php.ini. For instance, for open_basedir, the value that gets written in the httpd.conf file, in each vhost directory, takes precedence over whatever I put in php.ini. But I've never seen Plesk undermine the importance of the post_max_size setting, nor can I imagine where Plesk might store such a conf setting if it did.

Any thoughts on what might be wrong? Are there other places some configuration data might be taking precedent?
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