[CentOS] CentOS 7: changes to php.ini

James Hogarth
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:50:30 -0000

On 21 September 2017 at 10:14, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>
wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
Nicolas
> > Kovacs
> > Sent: den 21 september 2017 11:05
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 7: changes to php.ini
> >
> > I'm hosting a few web apps like OwnCloud, Wordpress and Dolibarr
on
> > CentOS 7 that require a handful of changes to php.ini. I have to
define
> > some custom values for post_max_size, upload_max_filesize, etc.
> >
> > I don't know if I'm supposed to edit /etc/php.ini directly or
if changes
> > should be put in a configuration file stub in /etc/php.d. For example,
I
> > followed the recommendations of a fellow CentOS user and defined
> > date.timezone by edit /etc/php.d/date.ini like this.
> >
> > [Date]
> > ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
> > ; http://php.net/date.timezone
> > date.timezone = Europe/Paris
> >
> > Am I supposed to do something similar for other PHP variables?
>
> In the beginning I edited those values in php.ini.
> Got tired of having to remake the changes in php.ini, whenever php-updates
> were installed, so eventually began setting the needed values directly in
> the
> Owncloud-GUI.
>
> Dates however are a different thing. I really always want to see and use
> ISO-dates and times regardless of it's OC or whatever - so I edit the
> php.ini
> in that case.
>
>
>
>
When you have different applications with different needs it's best to
either use mod_php specific directives within that virtualhost such as here:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/owncloud/blob/master/f/owncloud-defaults.inc

Or honestly better still to not use mod_php and instead switch to php-fpm
with separate application pools which each have their own php settings like