Question: I'm trying to upload a file larger than 2GB to a local PHP 5.3.4 server. I've set the following server variables:

```none
memory_limit = -1
post_max_size = 9G
upload_max_filesize = 5G

```

However, in the error\_log I found:

> 
> PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 2120909412 bytes exceeds the limit of 1073741824 bytes in Unknown on line 0
> 
> 
> 

Can anyone tell me why this keeps failing please?

Answer: 
I had a similar problem, but my config was:

```
post_max_size = 1.8G
upload_max_filesize = 1.8G

```

and yet I could not upload a 1.2GB file. The error was very same:

```
PHP Warning:  POST Content-Length of 1347484420 bytes exceeds the limit of 1073741824 bytes in Unknown on line 0

```

I spent a day wondering where the heck was this "limit of 1073741824" coming from!

**Solution**:

Actually, the error was in the php.ini parser: It only understands INTEGER numbers, so essentially it was parsing `1.8G` as `1G` !!

Changing the value to e.g. `1800M` fixed it.

Pls ensure to restart the apache server with the below command **service apache2 restart**
We've had the same problem: uploads stopped at 2GB.

Under SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 11 SP 2, php53 was the problem.

Then we added a new repository that has php54:
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php/SLE_11_SP2/>

and upgraded to that, we now can upload 5GB :-)