php ini which one

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I moved from my old apache to nginx and php 5 3 10  And when I tried to modify php ini to suit my needs  I found there are 3 of them     locate php ini   etc php5 cgi php ini  etc php5 cli php ini  etc php5 fpm php ini   Which one should I edit

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You can find what is the php ini file used    By add phpinfo   in a php page and display the page  like the picture under  From the shell  enter  php -i   Next  you can find the information in the Loaded Configuration file  so here it s  user local etc php php ini   Sometimes  you have indicated  none   in this case you just have to put your custom php ini that you can find here  http   git php net  p php-src git a blob f php ini-production hb HEAD    I hope this answer will help

User · Answer

It really depends on the situation  for me its in fpm as I m using PHP5-FPM  A solution to your problem could be a universal php ini and then using a symbolic link created like   ln -s  etc php5 php ini php ini   Then any modifications you make will be in one general  ini file  This is probably not really the best solution though  you might want to look into modifying some configuration so that you literally use one file  on one location  Not multiple locations hacked together

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Generally speaking  the cli php ini file is used when the PHP binary is called from the command-line  You can check that running php --ini from the command-line   fpm php ini will be used when PHP is run as FPM -- which is the case with an nginx installation  And you can check that calling phpinfo   from a php page served by your webserver   cgi php ini  in your situation  will most likely not be used    Using two distinct php ini files  one for CLI  and the other one to serve pages from your webserver  is done quite often  and has one main advantages   it allows you to have different configuration values in each case   Typically  in the php ini file that s used by the web-server  you ll specify a rather short max execution time   web pages should be served fast  and if a page needs more than a few dozen seconds  30 seconds  by default   it s probably because of a bug -- and the page s generation should be stopped  On the other hand  you can have pretty long scripts launched from your crontab  or by hand   which means the php ini file that will be used is the one in cli   For those scripts  you ll specify a much longer max execution time in cli php ini than you did in fpm php ini   max execution time is a common example   you could do the same with several other configuration directives  of course

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Although Pascal s answer was detailed and informative it failed to mention some key information in the assumption that everyone knows how to use phpinfo    For those that don t   Navigate to your webservers root folder such as  var www   Within this folder create a text file called info php  Edit the file and type phpinfo    Navigate to the file such as  http   www example com info php  Here you will see the php ini path under Loaded Configuration File     Make sure you delete info php when you are done

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