File upload MethodNotAllowedHttpException

See https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/cant-upload-files-larger-than-3mb

or https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/large-file-upload-gives-csrf-token-mismatch

My guessing its like the above but you are using PUT or PATCH verb and this gets lost

I don't see any point in a hidden form field trying to increase the size? That would never work.

You need to change the php.ini file and then make sure the change is in place - possibly by phpinfo() inside a controller

Morning. @jlrdw and @Snapey Thanks, but I am wanting to retain the max file sizes.

If a user tries to upload too large a file it should not be saved and an $error returned. At the moment its just the grey error page and as @Snapey says the verb is getting lost --- at what point and how to prevent it....

I can see this morning not being very productive

Its because the allowed POST size is smaller than the max upload. The input gets truncated and that breaks the routing.

Keep your max upload size but then make the post size a little larger to allow for the rest of the form.

Remember also that you can apply size checks as a validation rule and catch too large files gracefully in your code.

This is frustrating, I know when it is fixed there will be a facepalm moment

Here are the settings, still no joy

Max_file_uploads: 20

Post_max_size: 4M

Upload_max_filesize: 3M

Memory_limit: 128M

<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="3145728">

Try to upload a 6Mb file ……. Routeing snaps !@£$ !@!$%&£

I don’t want to rely on client side js validation if, when it gets server side it all goes tits up.

Cheers,

have you validated these by doing a phpinfo from your script? I ask because all these settings should have a lower case letter at the start

@Snapey, Yes in coped text from phpinfo and double checked that i was editing the correct file and restarted the server.

I am at the point of doing a fresh install of Laravel and recreate the form and process to see if there is an issue with something i have done elsewhere ....

Thanks again for the reply

Okay this is what i have so far.

In app/Http/Kernel I have found and added the following to the global $middleware

'\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\VerifyPostSize::class,'

Great news i know get a "PostTooLargeException" error and still loose the put/patch header

I've not done anything with custom exceptions and the Exception Handler so I need to read up and try to figure out how to catch and redirect back to the /edit or /create pages

Hi, I just had the same problem and my experience was, that the post_max_size had to be significantly larger than upload_max_filesize.

When I had:

upload_max_filesize = 20M
post_max_size = 25M

I still experienced the MethodNotAllowedHttpException. However with

upload_max_filesize = 20M
post_max_size = 50M

it went away (and gave place to the proper FileException)

@hanspeter the uploaded image may be base64 encoded causing significant overhead