NYCPHP Meetup

[David A. Roth]

> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:13:01 -0500
> From: Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn at rbnsn.com>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] /etc/php.ini changes aren't picked up
> 	immediately?
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
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> At 09:07 AM 2/26/2007, David A. Roth wrote:
>> The system:
>> CentOS 4.4 x86_64
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 30
>> 12:18:01 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) (built: Feb 21 2007 06:31:24)
>>
>> I noticed changes I made to the /etc/php.ini didn't take effect
>> immediately. Calling it a night, I turned off the system, and when I
>> brought it back up this morning the changes were there. Is this
>> normal behavior? I mean, there is no php process to start and stop
>> process. Should rebooting a system after making changes to the
>> /etc/php.ini be considered normal?
>
> Your webserver needs to be restarted in order for changes to PHP.INI
> to take affect.
>
> Ken
>
Thanks for the posting. Does this only apply to the /etc/php.ini? What 
about if you copy the /etc/php.ini file locally and edit it, like users 
do on web hosting services where they aren't root so they can't restart 
Apache?

Thanks,

David Roth
rothmail at comcast.net