Uploading Images with PHP Script Failing - php

I'm fairly new to PHP, but I'm having a recurring issue via multiple different scripts and servers when uploading images via ShareX to my server with a custom script, specifically this one.
I've migrated servers (I was on a shared host, now I'm on a VPS), and have since changed to using this script, but I'm still having the issue and I don't know what exactly the problem is.
The issue (does not occur 100% of the time, but it does most of the time; sometimes it works after retrying) is that uploading images over a certain size, about 250-500KB times out or fails most of the time. After 60 seconds, I get a 502 error (Bad Gateway) on ShareX.
I've looked up common solutions to similar problems ("large" files timing out in PHP), and have checked the following variables in my PHP.ini file.
max_execution_time = 60
max_input_time = 60
memory_limit = 128M
post_max_size = 8M
When uploads are successful, it takes a few seconds in total to upload and get the link of the uploaded image returned, but when it fails, it's always 60 seconds and then error. There is no middle ground, it's either it succeeds instantly or times out after 60 seconds.
I don't know exactly how to go about finding what exactly the error (if any) is. When it happens, ShareX reports a (502) Bad Gateway error, the 'Response:' is just the source code of the page (the script is set up to redirect you to this page if it detects you aren't uploading anything or it fails), and the 'Stack Trace' is the following:
StackTrace:
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at ShareX.UploadersLib.Uploader.UploadData(Stream dataStream, String url, String fileName, String fileFormName, Dictionary`2 arguments, NameValueCollection headers, CookieCollection cookies, ResponseType responseType, HttpMethod method, String requestContentType, String metadata)
Edit: My server is behind cloudflare, and I read that cloudflare might cause problems. However, I've checked the settings and the maximum upload size is set at 100MB on cloudflare, and pausing it doesn't seem to help.
Edit: I removed the limit on post_max_size which was 8M and it seems to have partly fixed the issue. I can now upload things up to about 3MB but after that it always fails with a custom error message from the script.

When increasing file POST limits, you may need to change at least 2 settings:
upload_max_filesize = 30M
post_max_size = 32M
Dont think it has anything to do with CloudFlare. See if you can check the error log for Apache if the above settings dont work.

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Apache resetting connection (?) on large file uploads [duplicate]

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net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when large file takes longer than a minute
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I have a site that used to be able to upload large files (large being > 10 or 20mb) but no longer can. I've been debugging this for hours at this point.
All php values are set ludicrously high:
post_max_size = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 512M
memory_limit = 1024M
max_execution_time = 600
max_input_time = 600
I've also set TimeOut 600 in httpd.conf.
Essentially, if I add a large file to an upload field, it never uploads. I can witness the "Uploading (1%)..." in the lower left in chrome showing the file start uploading. It will count up, sometimes even reaching 100%, then start over again at 0 and start counting up again, eventually failing with an ERR_CONNECTION_RESET message.
The eventual failure seems to happen after a random amount of time, sometimes 24 seconds, simetimes 3 minutes.
I tried a 170mb file and it will always get to 16 or 17% before it restarts. That always takes something like 22 seconds. Then, it will restart at 0 and count up to 16 or 17% again, then restart again. It ultimately fails with the ERR_CONNECTION_RESET message sometimes after restarting once, sometimes after restarting 4 or 5 times.
I also tried a 30mb file. This one will always reach right around 100% before restarting.
df -h shows plenty of file space remaining, and I was able to upload files fine via SFTP confirming that there is indeed sufficient hard disk space.
Files also upload fine using the exact same application on my development server, so I can rule out any application issues.
Smaller files also upload fine on the production server, i've tried files as large as 3 or 5mb with no issue.
I'm able to execute code like:
echo "start";
sleep(60);
echo "stop";
without any hiccup on production, so it isn't timing out all requests, only the uploads.
I've tried multiple browsers, and this is happening from multiple client locations.
There is never an error in any log I can find in /var/log/httpd.
I'm not running mod security. Nowhere in my application are any of the php settings overwritten. It's a pretty standard installation of apache and php.
The production server is Amazon Linux running Apache/2.4.39 and I've tried it on php 7.1 and php 7.2 and got the same result, both using mod_php.
I am well into the "banging head against wall" stage of this issue. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do to debug this?
Finally got this to work. Thanks to net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when large file takes longer than a minute
I had to add RequestReadTimeout header=0 body=0 to my httpd.conf file
It couldn't be within a vhost definition, at least I tried that hours ago and nothing. But, circled back and tried it again in httpd.conf and it worked.
TG.

net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when large file takes longer than a minute

I have a multipart file upload in a form with a php backend. I've set max_execution_time and max_input_time in php.ini to 180 and confirmed on the file upload that these values are set and set TimeOut 180 in Apache. I've also set
RewriteRule .* - [E=noabort:1]
RewriteRule .* - [E=noconntimeout:1]
When I upload a 250MB file on a fast connection it works fine. When I'm on a slower connection or a network link conditioner to artificially slow it down, the same file times out and on Chrome gives me net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET after 1 minute (and 5 seconds) reliably. I've also tried other browsers with the same outcome, just different error messages.
There is no indication to an error in any log and I've tried both on http and https.
What would cause the upload connection to be reset after 1 minute?
EDIT
I've now also tried to have a simple upload form that bypasses any framework I'm using, still timeouts at 1 minute.
I've also just made a sleep script that timeouts after 2 and a half minutes, and that works, page takes around 2.5 minutes to load so I can't see how it's browser or header related.
I've also used a server with more RAM to ensure it's not related to that. I've tested on 3 different servers with different specs but all from the same CentOS 7 base.
I've now also upgraded to PHP 7.2 and updated the relevant fields again with no change in the problem.
EDIT 2
The tech stack for this isolated instance is
Apache 2.4.6
PHP 5.6 / 7.2 (tried both), has OPCache
Redis 3.2.6 for session information and key / value storage (ElastiCache)
PostgreSQL 10.2 (RDS)
Everything else in my tech stack has been removed from this test area to try and isolate the problem. EFS is on the system but in my most isolated test it's just using EBS.
EDIT 3
Here some logs from the chrome network debugger:
{"params":{"net_error":-101,"os_error":32},"phase":0,"source": {"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":69},
{"params": {"error_lib":33,"error_reason":101,"file":"../../net/socket/socket_bio_adapter.cc","line":216,"net_error":-101,"ssl_error":1},"phase":0,"source": {"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":56},
{"phase":2,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":159},
{"phase":1,"source": {"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":164},
{"phase":1,"source": {"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":287},
{"params": {"error_lib":33,"error_reason":101,"file":"../../net/socket/socket_bio_adapter.cc","line":113,"net_error":-101,"ssl_error":1},"phase":0,"source": {"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":55},
{"params":{"net_error":-101},"phase":2,"source": {"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":287},
{"params":{"net_error":-101},"phase":2,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":164},
{"params":{"net_error":-101},"phase":2,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":97},
{"phase":1,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":105},
{"phase":2,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":105},
{"phase":2,"source":{"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":38},
{"phase":2,"source":{"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":38},
{"phase":2,"source":{"id":274043,"type":8},"time":"3332701830","type":34},
{"params":{"net_error":-101},"phase":2,"source":{"id":274038,"type":1},"time":"3332701830","type":2},
I went through a similar problem, in my case it was related to mod_reqtimeout by adding:
RequestReadTimeout header=20-40, MinRate=500 body=20, MinRate=500
to httpd.conf did the trick!
You can check the documentation here.
Hope it helps!
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ERR_CONNECTION_RESET usually means that the connection to the server has ceased without sending any response to the client. This means that the entire PHP process has died without being able to shut down properly.
This is usually not caused by something like an exceeded memory_limit. It could be some sort of Segmentation Fault or something like that. If you have access to error logs, check them. Otherwise, you might get support from your hosting company.
I would recommend you to try some of these things:
Try cleaning the browser's cache. If you have already visited the page, it is possible for the cache to contain information that doesn’t match the current version of the website and so blocks the connection setup, making the ERR_CONNECTION_RESET message appear.
Add the following to your settings:
memory_limit = 1024M
max_input_vars = 2000
upload_max_filesize = 300M
post_max_size = 300M
max_execution_time = 990
Try setting the following input in your form:
In your processing script, increase the session timeout:
set_time_limit(200);
You might need to tune up the SSL buffer size in your apache config file.
SSLRenegBufferSize 10486000
The name and location of the conf file is different depending on distributions.
In Debian you find the conf file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
A few times it is mod_security module which prevents post of large data approximately 171 KB. Try adding/modifying the following in mod_security.conf
SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit 10486000
SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit 10486000
I hope something might work out!
Incase anybody else runs into this - there is also a problem with this relating to PHP-FPM. If you dont set "ProxyTimeout" in your httpd.conf - PHP-FPM uses a default timeout of one minute. It took me several hours to figure out the problem as I initially was thinking of all the normal settings like everyone else.
I had the same problem. I used the resumable file upload method where if the internet is disconnected and reconnects back then the upload resumes from the same progress.
Check out the library https://packagist.org/packages/pion/laravel-chunk-upload
Installation
composer require pion/laravel-chunk-upload
Add service provider
\Pion\Laravel\ChunkUpload\Providers\ChunkUploadServiceProvider::class
Publish the config
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Pion\Laravel\ChunkUpload\Providers\ChunkUploadServiceProvider"
In my opinion it maybe relative to one of them:
About apache config (/etc/httpd2/conf ou /etc/apache2/conf):
Timeout 300
max_execution_time = 300
About php config ('php.ini'):
upload_max_filesize = 2000M
post_max_size = 2000M
max_input_time = 300
memory_limit = 3092M
max_execution_time = 300
About PostgreSQL config (execute this request):
SET statement_timeout TO 0;
About proxy, (or apache mod_proxy), it maybe also be due to proxy timeout configuration
in case anyone has the same issue, the problem I encountered is that the http request has to go through proxy sever and waf, small files upload is ok, but with large files the tcp connection automatically closed, how to validate:
simply change your hosts setting point the domain to the web server ip address (or you may use firefox with no-proxy if there is no waf), if your problem gone then it's the caused by the proxy or the waf in between your web server and the browser
Connection-Reset occurs when php process dies without proper error message.
Changing oracle client version from 19 to 12c and then appropriately configuring in php.ini solved the connection reset issue for our team.

How to prevent timeout when running a time consuming PHP

I am using PHP that gets so many data from several sites and write those data to the server which make files greater than 500 MB, but the process fails in between giving a 500 INTERNAL ERROR, how to adjust the timeout time of the php so that the process runs till it is completed.
If you want to increase the maximum execution time for your scripts, then just change the value of the following setting in your php.ini file-
max_execution_time = 60
If you want more memory for your scripts, then change this-
memory_limit = 128M
One more thing, if you keep on processing the input(GET or POST), then you need to increase this as well-
max_input_time = 60
you have to set some settings in the php.ini to solve this problem.
There are some options which could be the problem.
Could you pls post your php.ini config?
Which kind of webserver do you use?Apache?

PHP: Uploading large files fail

Im confused... I can't seem to upload files in the 2gb range. When i try using curl to send a 1.92gb file to my site (through an API), it doesn't report anything at all, its just blank. When i send a 1kb file, it reports back like it should.
When i try uploading via the upload form, it ends up freezing mid way, around 33%. Although im not sure if only the progress bar has froze or if the actual file upload it self has been suspended. I suspect that only the progress bar has froze because it still says data is being sent even though the progress bar freezes.
My php.ini (yes, its reflected by phpinfo as well):
register_globals = Off
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
post_max_size = 2047M
upload_max_filesize = 2047M
max_execution_time = 25200 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 25200 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 2048M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
short_open_tag = On
My vps doesnt actually have 2gb of ram at its disposal, but does memory_limit really need to be set this high?
How should i go about testing this? I know 400mb files work, i haven't tested anything in between 400mb and 1.92gb
You will need a premium account to test up to 2gb, so here is one you can play with:
User: testreferral
Pass: 1234
http://filefx.com
I dont understand where this problem is arising.
Check for:
Memory limit. Try uploading files above and below the actual memory limit.
Time limit. Aren't your uploads take 7+ hours, are they?
The effective settings. Some setting might be overridden by server/etc settings.
PHP: mysql query skipped/ignored after large file uploads?
Mysql was timing out during the file upload. So the file wasn't showing up in the DB

24MB PHP file upload fails silently

I'm writing an app that accepts .mp4 uploads.
So I've a 24.3MB .mp4 that is posted to the server, but it fails silently.
The next smallest file I have is a 5.2MB .flv. It's not the file type of course, but file size.
I wonder if anybody could shed some light on this?
P.S. the relevant php.ini entries are as follows:
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 32M
Help!
You should also set post_max_size. Files are sent using HTTP POST.
I wonder if it's encoding-related. Base64 encoding = 33% greater size. 24.3 * 1.33 = 32.4 MB > 32 MB. Try a 23.9 MB file and see if that succeeds
Set error reporting level to E_ALL. Might give you some hint about what's going wrong.
post_max_size is a good idea, also you should check for timeouts. Since uploading larger files takes longer, the webserver might decide it's all taking too long and cancel the request. Check for maximum execution time in php.ini, also check whether there are other server-side time limits (I know of webervers where all tasks are killed after 30 secs. no matter what. An upload might easily take longer than that).
Have you considered using a Flash-Based uploader? This gives you more control over the upload process, and you can display a progress bar during upload (more user-friendly)

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