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