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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> Kristian Oelgaard wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was trying to upload a movie to the FEniCS wiki page, but I got the message
> > that the size of the file was too big (file is 7+ Mb). What are the limitations
> > and what should the format be?
> > 
> > I worked around it by putting the file in:
> > 
> > fenics-apps@xxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/www.fenics.org/pub/software/fenics-apps/fenics-plasticity/fenics-plasticity-beam.avi
> > 
> > and linking to it from the page:
> > 
> > http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FEniCS_Plasticity
> > 
> > where the result can be seen.
> > 
> > Now, for future reference what should the procedure be?
> 
> 
> There is a limit on how large a file the server's PHP installation will
> allow uploaded (can be changed by something like upload_max_filesize in
> php.ini) and on top of that, MediaWiki imposes an artificial limit on
> the size of files uploaded ($wgUploadSizeWarning, $wgMaxUploadSize in
> LocalSettings.php).
> 
> I see two possible approaches for the future:
> 
> 1. Have someone with write access to the server change these variables
> to be large enough. (Also, someone with read access to those settings
> files can tell you what the limits currently are.)
> 2. Have people upload movies to their own servers and just link to them
> from the Wiki.
> 
> Harish

I think the current is ok, so my suggestion would be that for larger
files, one needs to post a link (URL) to the maintainers (on the
mailing list) and then you can just upload it to the server since you
have write access.

-- 
Anders

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