Farhan Munim
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Increase WordPress limits on Coolify

If you’re running WordPress on Coolify (with Traefik as the reverse proxy), you may hit upload or memory limits when importing content or uploading large files. The fix is straightforward – you just need to append a few php_value directives to your .htaccess file using the built-in Coolify terminal.

Head to your WordPress resource in Coolify, open the Terminal tab, select your WordPress container, and hit Connect. Then run cat >> /var/www/html/.htaccess, type in each line below one at a time, and press Ctrl+D when you’re done:

php_value upload_max_filesize 128M
php_value post_max_size 128M
php_value memory_limit 256M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300
php_value max_input_vars 3000

Then verify output by running the following:

cat /var/www/html/.htaccess

Apache reads .htaccess on every request, so there’s no need to restart anything. You can verify the new values in WordPress under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server. Just be careful to only run the append command once – if you run it twice, the lines will be duplicated. Also note that these changes live inside the container, so if you rebuild from scratch they’ll be lost. For a permanent fix, consider mounting the .htaccess file as a persistent volume under your resource’s Storages settings in Coolify.

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