How to Enable File Uploads in cPanel?

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Steps to enable file uploads in cPanel:

Steps to create phpinfo file to get the PHP modules for your domain:

On the cPanel dashboard, click on File Manager from the FILES section
Now, click on the public_html file.
To create a new file, click on File.
In the New File Name textbox, enter the file name with .php extension. In our case, we have entered the info.php name.
Click on Create New File.
As you can see the info.php file is created.
Now, right-click on the info.php file and select the Edit option.

After clicking on the Edit option, one dialogue box appears on the screen which will ask you for Character Encoding.
If you don’t want to select any Character Encoding option then click on the Edit button.
After clicking on the Edit button, a new window appears in which you need to add this code

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

and click on the Save Changes button to save this file.

Now browse this URL http://domainname/filename.php
In our case, the URL is this http://mwadmin20978.com/info.php
Navigate to the Core section and you can see the file_uploads is On for Local Value as well as for Master Value.

In this way, you can enable file uploads in cPanel.