I have a DNN website which I am building. It is a simple site with some images and text. I am trying to upload a 25MB video file using the file manager but unable to do so. I think there is a time out.

How do I upload this big file?

Can I use FTP? If yes what do I put in in the web address, user name and password?

Help on this would be highly appreciated. 

Hello,

Yes you can upload files using FTP, I tend to use FTP for larger files as I find it to be more reliable.

For your FTP details, you will need to ask your hosting provider for the correct login details for your FTP account.

You will want to upload to the Portals / 0 / folder in your DotNetNuke installation files - in there you will see all of the files associated with your portal file manager

If you have several portals installed the folders will be named

Portals / 1 /
Portals / 2 /
etc.

After uploading the file, you may need to go into the File Manager and tick recursive and click on Sync so that it can sync up to all of the files you have uploaded.

There is also a limitation to file sizes in web.config. If you intend for that large file to be downloaded, you may have to change the default (I think it is 8 MB). There are also some timeouts that you may also need to extend.

But, for uploading ... I'm with Lee -- use ftp.

Ok - I knew this, so I have uploaded 4 big files via FTP and clicked Synchronize many many many times with recursive and without - I tried setting the auto synch file system off, then on, then deleting then reuploading and MY FILES STILL DO NOT APPEAR IN FILE MANAGER.... they are 8 to 16 MB is size.

There is a line in the web.config file that determines the maximum file size.  You will have to increase it. 

Copied from the DotNetNuke forums (and I added spaces around the angle brackets so that they won't be interpreted as tags when posted here):

There is a file size limitation in the default web.config.  You can increase the file size easily.  You may wish to adjust the timeout setting as well.  Here are the default lines from the web.config for 4.3.2:

< !-- allow large file uploads -- >

< httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="8192" requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192"/ >

Change the maxRequestLength and requestLengthDiskThreshold to whatever you wish.  The default timeout is in the machine settings but you can override it here.  So here's an example, you could change it to this to allow 10 meg files with up to 20 minutes of time to upload:

< !-- allow large file uploads -- >

< httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="10240" requestLengthDiskThreshold="10240" executionTimeout="1200" / >