php.ini is the configuration file used by the PHP preprocessor to setup the default settings and certain security restrictions.
Questions tagged [php.ini]
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Restrict Overriding memory_limit in php.ini
We have a issue that just came to our notice, some of our developers used ini_set('memory_limit', -1) to over-ride the php.ini memory_limit settings in their code files.
Due to which sometimes our Memory/CPU usage is way far more than usual and we…

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Is there an equivalent to Debian's cli/php.ini on Redhat?
How do you configure the command line version of PHP to have different settings on a Redhat system?
On Debian based systems, php has a separate command-line version config file: /etc/php5/cli.
On Redhat, there's /etc/php.ini and various additional…

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Hide STRICT errors on PHP 5.4
I've upgraded from PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.4 today. Now my script is displaying a lot of error messages. How to hide them without using error_reporting(0); inside php file ?
I use this:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT

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Can't get PHP to stop showing errors
Contrary to most people's problem I cannot get PHP to stop showing errors, I have in my php.ini display_errors set to off but it still shows them, I have also tried .htaccess, and inline ini_set and error_reporting variables but the errors still…

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Store session files in different directories in PHP
I have several sites hosted on the same server, in different directories (e.g: server.com/site_one, server.com/site_two) and I want to store the session files for each site in a different directory.
How do I do that?
Thanks!

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How can I override global PHP.INI settings on shared hosting?
I have sharring hosting account on Linux Apache PHP with JustHost.
In my account exists a global php.ini that only admin of hosting company can access.
My problem is that when I run php script the warnings + errors printed on webpage.
So I create…

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error in php not logging or displaying
I can not get any errors to display on screen on write to a log file. When check phpinfo() print out I have same value of master a local for
display_errors On
display_startup_errors On
error_log /var/log/php.log
error_reporting E_ALL &…

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Do I have to recompile php to enable GD Library?
I have a GD library on my server installed and 'enabled' but under the Configure Command in php.info it says
"--without-gd"
Is there a way to enable it through root or do I have to recompile?
EDIT: This is what it shows below under "GD"
GD…

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PHP sessions directory keeps filling until overflowing
I have a problem with my PHP session data folder. It seems to not be expiring sessions and has hit some sort of limit, presumably the filesystem limit for files in a directory. Requests that involve writing sessions fail with fatal error due to not…

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Why is PHP max_input_vars setting needed?
I have a bit weird question. Why is PHP setting max_input_vars needed?
PHP has a memory limit. So even if somebody sends 10M variables, the request will be terminated because of memory shortage.
What are the risks of setting max_input_vars to…

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Does PHP cgi have its own set of .ini files that differ from PHP cli?
The server is:
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) , 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64
PHP 5.4.16 (cli) (built: Nov 15 2017 16:33:54)
I wasn't able to get PHP SOAP to work without an error from web pages, although the test I did worked fine at the…

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php_value overrides with Apache using a front controller
I am trying to set specific server side value for virtual paths used to upload files.
All my URLs are virtual and requested are dispatched by a front controller. I have the following config in my site's only .htaccess file:
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php session.save.path that is not from my ini file
I have set up a custom php.ini for a dev site (the production site will eventually be on the same server) - it sets the session.save path to a directory specific to the site.
You can see the result at https://dev.permaculture.org.nz/info1.php (will…

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Changing session.save_path in php.ini not working
Fedora 25 + PHP 7 + Apache 2.4.23
Hello, after I change session.save_path in php.ini and restart apache, I can successfully verify that it's modified with:
$ php -i | grep session.save_path
However, in the html/php pages themselves, the sessions are…

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php.ini not being loaded
I have been trying to configure my Apache server all day, however I am having major issues with getting a php.ini file to be loaded.
When I try to connect to my database I get this error:
Call to undefined function mysql_connect()
After getting…

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