All our shared hosting servers, run php in CGI mode and enables you to run your own custom php.ini

A custom php.ini is already configured on your server, enabling Zend Optimizer and Suhosin patch. It also have certain functions disabled for your own site security. In certain cases, you would need to change the existing values or modify default ones. You just need to make sure of a presence of php.ini in the public_html directory and you can alter the directive values there. Please refer URL http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.php for a list of directives that can be modified in php.ini.

Please note that you also can control the suhosin directives as well.

You do not need to upload a full PHP.ini and instead need to update the php.ini with the new directive values you would like to have.

It is also recommended not to remove the Zend and Suhosin extension related lines already present in the php.ini.

If you need to change the directives for the functionality of a particular application only, let's say forums ; installed in a folder called forums, accessible by a URL, like http://www.your_domain.com/forums/ , you just need to put a php.ini inside the forums folder with the needed modifications. A phpinfo page accessible inside the forums URL will show that it is the php.ini settings stored inside the forums folder is taken into consideration while accessing the forums and the default php.ini for other applications. This means you have complete control over what security level is needed for running your PHP based applications.

Ex : If you want to change the upload_max_filesize setting to 20M, please add the lines in php.ini

upload_max_filesize = 20M

after making sure that there is no other upload_max_filesize already existing in the php.ini .

More importantly, if there is any instruction anywhere saying to use php_value and php_flag in .htaccess to alter the php settings, please don't follow it, since you risk a chance for getting internal server errors. e-GlueWeb servers don't support that. Any existing php_value and php_flag must as well be changed to php.ini lines.

If you are getting any errors, after the modification of php.ini , please contact e-GlueWeb support.