title: I am unable to upload media files larger than 8MB in wordpress
body: <p>I am hosting this site through Microsoft Azure.</p>
  
  <p>I just tried to append <code>define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '3000M');</code> into the <code>wp-config.php</code> file and that did not work.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried to add a <code>php.ini</code> file into the root directory with no success. I also attempted to move that file into the <code>wp-admin</code> directory and then attempted the same thing in both directories with the file name <code>php5.ini</code> and nothing will work.</p>
  
  <p>I tried adding the following code to the theme <code>functions.php</code> file (with no success):</p>
  
  <pre><code>@ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' );
  @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M');
  @ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The ONLY other solution I have seen that I haven't been able to try is editing the <code>.htaccess</code> file. Where is that thing?! I've looked all through the source and just cannot find it. Also, what is the file NAME? Every post I've found has referred to it as "the .htaccess file" but I see nothing with that file type and cannot create one since I do not know what the actual NAME of the file should be.</p>
  
  <p>Any help or other solutions would be much appreciated.</p>