Cannot Eliminate 2M upload limit from WordPress

[palomnik]

Operating system Ubuntu Linux 16.04.7
Webmin version 1.990 Usermin version 1.834
Virtualmin version 6.17-3
Nginx server version

This is not my first rodeo with this stuff, I have always solved it in the past by checking PHP.ini and Nginx Conf files. Here is my usual routine:

Site Nginx Conf(s):

client_max_body_size 200M;
}
location / {
…
client_max_body_size 200M;
}

** PHP.ini**

upload_max_filesize = 256MB
post_max_size = 256M
memory_limit = 512M
max_execution_time = 180

or in some cases:

memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_size = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 64M
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 1000

This time, I just ran Grep to find the offending files. I got this:

root@host3:/etc/php# grep -r upload_max_filesize .
./7.3/cli/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./7.3/cgi/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M
./7.3/phpdbg/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./7.3/fpm/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M
./7.4/cli/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./7.4/cgi/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M
./7.4/cgi/php.ini.ucf-dist:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./7.4/fpm/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M
./8.0/cli/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./8.0/apache2/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./8.0/cgi/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M
./8.0/phpdbg/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 2M
./8.0/fpm/php.ini:upload_max_filesize = 256M

I changed ALL of the listings of 2M to 256M, rebooted, but I’m still getting a WordPress upload limit of 2M! What am I missing?

[tpnsolutions]

@palomnik,

It’s quite possible you are updating the incorrect php.ini file. Most installs (though I’m less experienced with nginx specifics) utilize a configuration either within the home directory of the domain, under something like “/home/username/etc/php.ini” or similar… Or a dedicated php-fpm directory. Updating the system wide “/etc/php.ini” file typically has not effect on a site since it’s not being used.

[Gomez_Adams]

@tpnsolutions

It’s quite possible you are updating the incorrect php.ini file.

That’s the answer right there.