Is there a file size limit in documents for an upload file

OpenEMR Development
#1

teryhill wrote on Monday, November 23, 2015:

Is there a file size limit in the document upload software for a pdf file?

Terry

#2

tmccormi wrote on Monday, November 23, 2015:

You set the limit in PHP.INI max_upload_size if I recall, I usually set it to 32 Meg due to Diagnostic images.

However word of warning on PDF. For viewing in the Patient->Report the PDF gets converted by imagemajik to a JPG for inline viewing and printing, this can be a big problem/system drag and can cause root drive to fill up of the PDF is huge (like a 50 pages) or if the PDF was created at 1200 DPI or something. I’ve had all of those things happen.

#3

tmccormi wrote on Monday, November 23, 2015:

Also note that the “upload fail” when the size is too big is not very informative and the user sometimes misses the fact that it failed.

#4

My files of greater than 1.5 M are not uploading.
I have found the php.ini file and I have found the line that needs to be changed. My max-file is set to 2 M which is too small. How do I edit the file? When I open it with Gedit, it only opens in read-only mode. Should I be editing the pnp.ini under 7.1/cli or under 7.1/apache2?

Robert Rovner

#5

@docrovner,
Accessing the system files you need root permission. So you can try by using the command sudo gedit /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini(if u are using gedit & change the file path according to your location)

Thanks,
ViSolve

#6

visolveemr,

I have managed to set my max_file_size to 8M using EDITOR. However, I am still unable to upload files larger than about 1.5 M. I changed the file to 8M and saved. Any other suggestions?

Robert Rovner

#7

hi @docrovner, did you restart apache?

#8

I reckon that would be helpful.

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