Custom php.ini settings for PHP FCGI

custom php.ini settings for PHP FCGI

If you want to enable custom php.ini settings for PHP FCGI on your server then follow the below steps :

1. Create a .htaccess file under the directory : /home/username/public_html

cd /home/username/public_html

vi .htaccess

Add the below two lines at the top :

AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php

Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php.fcgi

save and quit.

2. Go to the cgi-bin directory : /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin

cd /home/username/public-html/cgi-bin

and then copy the default php.ini here

cp /usr/local/lib/php.ini /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/

3. Create php.fcgi file to load custom php.ini

Please note that you should still be in /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin location.

vi php.fcgi

and then add the below code :

#!/bin/sh

export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=1

export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=0

exec /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5

save and quit.

Now make the file php.cgi executable:

chmod + x php.fcgi

4. Change ownership of files to correct user:

chown username.username * -R

And if it still does not work for you then follow the below steps as well :

5. Add paths to php.conf file

vi /usr/local/apache/conf/php.conf

and add the below lines :

Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php.fcgi

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

save and quit.

and after adding the above two lines the php.conf file should look like this :

root@server[/usr/local/apache/conf] # cat php.conf

# Fastcgi configuration for PHP5

LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so

MaxRequestsPerProcess 500

AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml

Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php.fcgi

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php5

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php4

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php3

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php2

FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .phtml

# End of autogenerated PHP configuration.

6. Distill and rebuild Apache, then restart Apache

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller –update

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

/etc/init.d/httpd restart