Increase Upload File Size for Apache Ubuntu 14

This documentation/guide is for how to modify Ubuntu 14’s Apache PHP5 so that a larger file size can be uploaded.
In this example, I modified the file size limit of 2mb to 4mb, as well as increased the max_execution_time so that there’s enough time to actually upload the larger file size to the server.

The process can be achieved several ways.

The easiest method is to modify php.ini.

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Modify the following lines:

upload_max_filesize = 4M
post_max_size = 8M #default
max_execution_time = 300

After saving the file, restart apache:

sudo service apache2 restart