Exception When Uploading Large Files

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi guys

I’m getting this strange issue when uploading files that are too large.

I have a limit of 5mb for uploads, but when someone tries to upload a larger file, the the following exception is thrown:




finfo_file(): Empty filename or path

This only happens on the production server (lamp stack) but I get the nice flash message in my development environment (MAMP).

I have the following rule in the Document model:




array('document_name', 'file', 'allowEmpty' => false,

                'maxSize' => 1024 * 1024 * 5,

                'mimeTypes' => 'image/jpg, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, application/pdf,

                    application/msword, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, text/plain',

                'tooLarge' => 'The file was larger than 5MB. Please upload a smaller file.',

                'wrongType' => 'You can only upload files of the type listed on this page.',

                'message' => 'Please select a file to upload.')

and I’m saving the file as follows:




if ($model->validate() && $model->save() {

....

I don’t understand why it would work fine in MAMP but not on the server.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

2

check your php.ini (there is file size limit and also POST request body size limit). There can be also similar limit in other places, like suhosin_patch, fcgid (of course if you use them)…

3

Thanks for getting back. Yes it turns out that the server was updated by a new administrator and the max upload size was set to 5mb. It’s a pity that Yii 1.1 doesn’t deal with this situation so well, but I’ve read that Yii 2.0 has a requirements checker class which sounds promising. Anyway, the problem was solved by increasing the max upload size.

Thanks again.