WordPress - How to customise upload.ini

[navhaxs]

Hey so I've got a few WordPress app instances deployed using the template -
https://github.com/Dokploy/templates/blob/canary/blueprints/wordpress/docker-compose.yml

I want to customise the uploads.ini file to increase the max upload limit.

I can see that there is this mapping included in the template
../files/uploads.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/uploads.ini

...but my question is: where is this file? does it exist? or do I need to create it - and where?

And it's not clear to me where the file path is relative to on the filesystem.

Thanks! 🙏🙏

[dosubot[bot]]

Hi @navhaxs! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the templates team.

The uploads.ini file doesn't exist as a standalone file in the repository — it's dynamically generated by Dokploy at deploy time from the template.toml configuration. Specifically, it's defined in the [[config.mounts]] section of the WordPress template [1]:

[[config.mounts]]
filePath = "uploads.ini"
content = """upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
memory_limit = 256M
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_vars = 3000

Dokploy provisions this file and places it at ../files/uploads.ini so the Docker Compose volume mapping (../files/uploads.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/uploads.ini) picks it up [2].

To customize it for an already-deployed instance, go to your WordPress service in Dokploy → Advanced tab → Volumes (or File Mounts), and you should see the uploads.ini mount there. You can edit the content directly (e.g., change 64M to 512M) and then redeploy.

⚠️ One heads-up: there's a reported bug where editing a file mount's content in the UI can silently fail to update the actual file on the host, even though the UI shows the new values [3]. If you run into that, a workaround is to delete the file mount and recreate it with your desired content, then redeploy.

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