changing php.ini has no effect on my EC2 instance's PHP config

Question

I'm running an Apache server in a micro instance from Amazon AWS, and I need to change the session duration and the max upload limit.

When I edit php.ini and restart Apache, changes don't show in Apache.

I wasn't able to find any info on this.

What can I do? is there any file overriding php.ini that you know of?

Answer 1

Since PHP on Amazon Linux ran with FPM/FastCGI I had to do:

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service

before restarting apache, i.e

sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

Answer 2

Which config file are you editing? When you do a phpinfo() what is the path shown under Loaded Configuration File? Edit the php.ini that it says it is loading & your changes should be reflected.

If you don’t know how phpinfo() works, just create a file on your server called something like:

phpinfo_test.php

In that file place this code:

<?php
  phpinfo();
?>

Now load phpinfo_test.php from that web server.