How can I upload large media file in eZ system

Wednesday 09 September 2009 2:07:48 pm

Hi friends,

I can upload any small media (datatype) file (150-200 MB) from my local PC to the apache server. But it doesn’t work for very large media file. I can not upload any large media file (e.g. 6GB- 8GB) in the webserver through the html form. I am using Apache 2+, PHP 5 and MySQL5+ and windows XP.
My question:
How can I change the execution of the media data type to be able to browsing the large media file in the local disk on apache server? Can I do it by changing the followings in php.ini configuration file? The current settings in php.ini is as follow:
max_execution_time = 480 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 240 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level
memory_limit = 512M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
Any suggestion is well come!!

With regards,
John :)
NESRC

Thursday 10 September 2009 12:54:32 am

Webdav is still handled by http, so is limited by the same limitations.

There are two options, and they both involve coding:
* modify the file / media datatype to let you browse a specific folder on the server, and use ftp to upload the file there*
* Create an extension similar to the ezmultiupload extension, but use any of the large upload clients instead of the YUI Upload/SWFUpload . Most of them seems to be written in java, and they normally split the file up in smaller pieces and sends one piece at a time. So you'll also need to merge them back together on the server.

Large file upload is on the roadmap for 4.3, but thats another 6 and a half month away, and there is no guarantee that it will stay on the roadmap or slip to the next version.
* We do actually have code for this, so I'll try to clean it up and make it public soon.

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Thursday 10 September 2009 3:17:48 am

Hello,
i have integrated for a client a java applet that allows the user to upload large files to a temporary file on the server an then select them to be integrated to ezpublish as a standard file. Of corse an ftp server is needed, would you like me to submit it as a contribution , or have you find a solution ...

Jey

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Friday 12 March 2010 5:01:23 am

I've created an extension to allow for large file uploads using Moxiecode's plupload www.plupload.com - I've been testing with file sizes up to 1.5 GB using the flash runtime. It's still in beta, but you can take a look at the code at http://code.google.com/p/ezplupload/

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