Title: 'http error' message on upload screen
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 'http error' message on upload screen

 *  Resolved [fuzzyashman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuzzyashman/)
 * (@fuzzyashman)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-message-on-upload-screen/)
 * Hi,
 * This was working fine before. But I started to get an ‘http error’ message in
   the uploader screen. It shows the file has uploaded 100%, but it never goes to
   that next step where it says ‘Crunching….”. It will for small files, but not 
   for the files I have that are about 20MB. In Tools, I can see it says I have 
   100MB to work with (just as before). So I updated the plugin to the latest, (
   also have had the latest install of WP).
 * But the problem persists. I deactivated it and then activated it. I ran it from
   the blue button in tools. It shows that I have have 100MB to play with, but still,
   I get ‘http error’ in the message bar about the uploader box.
 * Do I need to go into my .ini and clean it out, start from scratch and then run
   the plugin again? Thanks for your help, Sir.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/increase-upload-max-filesize/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/increase-upload-max-filesize/)

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 *  Plugin Author [isabel104](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isabel104/)
 * (@isabel104)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-message-on-upload-screen/#post-5162614)
 * Sorry to hear that. A few things to note:
    1. If the status says that your upload_max_filesize limit is 100M then the plugin
       did its job. That’s all the plugin does, is increase that limit. If the status
       shows that the limit is increased, then it worked.
    2.  100M is a pretty high limit which would require a higher “**max_execution_time**”
       or “**memory_limit**“. The problem may be that your server limits these. This
       plugin, originally, used to increase the memory_limit. However, that feature
       was removed because so many web hosts put a limit on that.
 * **Possible solution:**
 * You could increase your “memory_limit” and “max_execution_time” by adding these
   lines to your php.ini file:
 *     ```
       memory_limit = 300M
       max_execution_time 1000
       ```
   
 * If you would tell me who your web host is, then I could investigate the problem
   further.
 * I hope this helps.

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 * Last reply from: [isabel104](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isabel104/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-message-on-upload-screen/#post-5162614)
 * Status: resolved