Increase Size Limit of Media Files Wordpress 4.1

I have edited (created) the php.ini file and the .htaccess file in accordance with this post. I have also found a plug-in (called Upload Max File Size) that claims to raise the file size limit of media files. With the plug-in activated, I see on the add new media screen that the limit has been changed. However, when I attempt to upload a 2.7MB image, I receive the error:

The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

The contents of php.ini are:

upload_max_filesize = 32M
post_max_size = 32M
max_execution_time = 300

My .htaccess file contains:

# BEGIN WordPress

php_value upload_max_filesize 100M
php_value post_max_size 1M
php_value max_execution_time 300
php_value max_input_time 300

# END WordPress

I am currently hosting the word press site myself and have root privileges to anything.