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Editing the server configuration of a site (.user.ini; .htaccess)

This guide explains how to change the server configuration of a site with Web hosting and a managed Cloud Server.

The difference between .user.ini and .htaccess files

Apache is the HTTP server. It is configured with a .htaccess file placed in the root of the website.
PHP is a programming language used to create dynamic web pages via an HTTP server. It is possible to customize the PHP commands using a .user.ini file. These changes will be effective in the folder and sub-folders where the .user.ini file is located

Important:

modification of the .user.ini file requires several minutes to become effective
PHP commands must be placed in the .user.ini file to be taken into account

We will now illustrate 3 ways to modify the server configuration of a site.

1. Changing the PHP configuration via the Manager

Most settings (e.g., max_input_vars, allow_url_fopen, memory_limit, etc.) can be configured via the Manager:

open the Manager (manager.infomaniak.com)
go to Hosting
click on the hosting/domain name concerned
under Sites at the bottom, click on the domain name of the site concerned
click on Advanced settings
under the PHP and Apache tabs, adjust the configuration of the site as needed
save

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2. Changing the PHP configuration via the .user.ini file

For the PHP commands not present in the Manager, you must define the desired values in the .user.ini file:

max_file_uploads = 20

3. Changing the PHP configuration in CLI

To customize the PHP commands using a command line interface (CLI) or in CRON tasks, you must define the desired values in a .user.ini file and then call the PHP executable with the -c .user.ini option

The following example enables the modification of the memory available for PHP:

~/web$ echo -e '<?php echo "memory_limit: " . ini_get("memory_limit") . "n"; ?>' >memory-limit.php
~/web$ php memory-limit.php
memory_limit: 512M
~/web$ echo 'memory_limit = 1024M' >.user.ini
~/web$ php -c .user.ini memory-limit.php
memory_limit: 1024M
~/web$

The following example enables allow_url_fopen for the WP CLI tool (specifically allows the recovery of extensions):

php -d allow_url_fopen=On ~/bin/wp package install trepmal/wp-revisions-cli