# How to increase max upload size in filemanager?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-to-increase-max-upload-size-in-filemanager/1096 "2020-06-22T19:07:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-to-increase-max-upload-size-in-filemanager/1096/2 "2020-06-22T20:24:23Z")

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You could consider increasing

> <https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/master/install/deb/filemanager/filegator/configuration.php>

See default config;

> <https://github.com/filegator/filegator/blob/a533eef33ac44092c073219f73acd8638ebcb1cb/configuration_sample.php>

```
    'upload_max_size' => 100 * 1024 * 1024, // 100MB

```

How ever 256 mb is the currently set value in /usr/local/hestia/php/etc/php-fpm.conf

How ever for larger files there are better system like a normal (s)ftp client

The current system is not optimised for uploading large files…

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