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PHP Settings with .user.ini

A .user.ini file allows you to easily customize PHP settings. Starting with Ubuntu Bionic only settings via .user.ini are supported.

To make PHP settings, you can create a file called .user.ini. All PHP settings defined in it will be recursively applied to the folder where the file is located.

Example​

register_globals=on
upload_max_filesize="5M"

Find affected .htaccess files​

To find affected files, you can use the following command:

find /home/www-*/ -type f -name .htaccess -exec grep -nH "php_" {} +

Migration from .htaccess​

If you have used our old PHP stack until now, you have to migrate the PHP settings from .htaccess to .user.ini.

For this, you only have to remove the first keyword (php_value, php_flag) and enter the definition with [KEY]=[VALUE]. Please surround the PHP settings in the .htaccess file with IfModule conditions as they will lead to issues after the migration otherwise:

.htaccess​

<IfModule php7_module>
  php_value  include_path         ".:/usr/local/lib/php"
  php_flag   display_errors       Off
  php_value  upload_max_filesize  500M
</IfModule>

.user.ini​

include_path=".:/usr/local/lib/php"
display_errors=Off
upload_max_filesize=500M