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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 a Web hosting and a managed Cloud Server.
The difference between the .user.ini and .htaccess files
- Apache is the HTTP server. It is configured with a .htaccess file placed at the root of the website.
- PHP is a programming language used to create dynamic web pages via an HTTP server. It is possible to customise your PHP commands with a .user.ini file, and these will be effective in the folders and subfolders where the .user.ini file is placed.
- changing the .user.ini file needs several minutes to become effective
- The PHP commands absolutely must be placed in the user.ini file to be considered
We are now going to show 3 ways of changing the server configuration for a site.
1. Changing the PHP configuration via the console
Certain settings (e.g. allow_url_fopen or memory_limit) can be configured via the console:
- open the admin console (https://manager.infomaniak.com)
- go to Hosting
- Click on the relevant hosting/domain name
- Under Sites, click on the relevant site's domain name
- adjust the site configuration as needed
2. Changing the PHP configuration via the .user.ini file
To customise the PHP commands via a web browser, the values required need to be specified in a .user.ini file
The following example allows the max_input_vars variable to be changed:
max_input_vars=3000
3. Changing the PHP configuration via CLI
To customise PHP commands via a command line interface (CLI) or in CRON tasks,the values required need to be specified in a .user.ini file, and the executable PHP then needs to be called with the -c .user.ini option
The following example allows the memory available for PHP to be changed:
~/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$
Useful resources
- How to create a .htaccess or .user.ini
- Changing the PHP version for a website
- Enabling Gzip compression
- Enabling Google PageSpeed Tools
- 301 redirection support
- Increasing the memory and runtime for scripts