How to increase UPLOAD MAX FILE SIZE for DREAMHOST?

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Jun 012010
 

My WordPress host on Dreamhost share hosting, it’s superexcellence, but, you know, Dreamhost has the 7M MAX upload filesize limit, so I can’t do something. I checked the Dreamhost Discussion Forum and google www, find a real and simple way to resolve it. Here’s how:

  1. Set up your domain for FastCGI
    Login your Dreamhost, enter Manage Domains, Edit your domain setup, in Web Options->PHP mode, select ‘PHP 5 FastCGI’, as below: 

    PHP5 FastCGI

    PHP5 FastCGI

  2. Download DreamHost Custom PHP.ini from DeamHost Scripts and Tips.
  3. Extract the dh-phpini.php from dh-phpini.zip and upload it to you website root.
  4. Open dh-phpini.php in you browse. Example: http://www.yoursite.com/dh-phpini.php.
  5. Then, this result shows,

    Install Completed

    Install Completed

  6. After install, this script create ‘cgi-bin’ folder in you website root, including ‘php.ini’ files in the folder, and add this lines in you .htaccess file, AddHandler fastcgi-script fcg fcgi fpl
    AddHandler php-fastcgi .php
    Action php-fastcgi /cgi-bin/dispatch.fcgi
  7. Default, the Max upload file size increase to 20M, if you want to change to more, edit php.ini file in ‘cgi-bin’ folder like this,post_max_size = 50M
    upload_max_filesize = 50M