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Hosh Sadiq
Asked: 2013-07-03 11:36:11 +0800 CST

Apache VirtualHosts define php.ini but extend main php.ini

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I have a main php.ini file and am wondering if it is possible to specify a custom php.ini for a virtualhost, but this php.ini would extend the main php.ini file, so that only the specified settings are overridden and everything else is taken the main php.ini. For example:

I have my main php.ini file in /etc/php5/php.ini, containing all the defaults. Let's say this has everything as default so e.g.

allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = Off

Then I have my virtualhost located at /home/user/php.ini and this contains the following:

allow_url_fopen = Off

This php would run with first the php.ini in /etc/php5/php.ini then the settings that are in /home/user/php.ini resulting in a configuration where both allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include are set to Off.

Edit: Also, if /home/user/php.ini does not exist, it would default back to /etc/php5/php.ini

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. May I recommend this alternative approach, which works quite well for multiple different virtualhost sites:

    Override specific php.ini files via virtualhost variables. For example, my current web server has these php.ini overloading values:

    php_value date.timezone "America/New_York"
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 180000
# allow sessions to last approximately two days
php_value session.cookie_lifetime 200000
php_value session.cache_expire 200000
# allow session cookie to last a little longer than two days.
# Change expose_php value in php.ini to off.
php_value upload_max_filesize 10M
php_value post_max_size 10M

    In this way you can bundle your php.ini config values with your apache config for specific sites, and have custom php.ini values per virtualhost.

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