Ubuntu – Local php.ini not overriding main php.ini

PHPUbuntu

I can't seem to get the php.ini file in the website's root (/var/www) to override the php.ini value in /etc/php5/apache2

/var/www/php.ini contents

upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M

But a phpinfo() page in the same directory shows the default values for them 2M and 8M respectively. And wordpress shows that the max upload size is 2MB.

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
PHP: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4

Any thoughts?

Best Answer

If you are using PHP >= 5.3, then you can override configs per directory by creating a file called .user.ini.

In your case, I believe it's the filename that is the problem.

The name of the file is configurable in your primary php.ini as user_ini.filename. If that is set to an empty string, then the feature is disabled.

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – PHP.ini does not load

Check the value for the "--with-config-file-path=" option. It should be /etc not /etc/php.ini. It seems that Apache is trying to load /etc/php.ini/php.ini and that's why doesn't find the file.

If this doesn't work, you could strace to check which files are opened by php:

strace -f -e trace=open php --ini

The answer will help you to find out where is php looking for php.ini files. This is the output in one of my servers:

10833 open("/usr/bin/php-cli.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
10833 open("/etc/php-cli.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
10833 open("/usr/bin/php.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
10833 open("/etc/php.ini", O_RDONLY)    = 3

Nginx – WordPress not resizing images with Nginx + php-fpm and other issues

The error states that PHP backend fails to reply withing a reasonable timeframe. While you have no restrictions in php-fpm directly, max_execution_time and max_input_time are my first guesses.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – PHP.ini does not load

Nginx – WordPress not resizing images with Nginx + php-fpm and other issues

Related Topic