Overview
This interface displays a set of the most commonly-referenced configuration options for PHP. This is useful, for example, to help you diagnose problems with how your web site handles PHP packages.
Note:
- This interface only appears on servers that run EasyApache 3.
- You cannot change your server's PHP configuration with this interface. To change your server's PHP configuration, contact your hosting provider.
Select a PHP version
If your hosting provider allows you to select the version of PHP that your website uses, use this section of the interface to make your selection.
To select a PHP version, perform the following steps:
- From the menu, select the version of PHP that you wish to use. Select System Default to use the version that your hosting provider selected.
- Click Update.
PHP directives
The following table contains a brief description of each directive in this interface: requires that you set this value to On, your website could become insecure.| Directive |
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Whether your web server allows PHP code to use the <% and %> tags in addition to the standard <?php and ?> tags. If you disable this option, PHP scripts with ASP tags will not work properly. |
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Whether your web server allows PHP scripts to receive files via HTTP. |
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Directories that the require, include, fopen(), file(), readfile(), and file_get_contents() functions query for files. |
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The number of seconds that your web server allows a PHP script to run before it terminates the script. This limit ensures that poorly-written scripts do not slow down your web server. |
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The number of seconds that your web server allows a PHP script to process information that you submit to it, such as file uploads. This limit ensures that overloaded scripts do not slow down your web server. |
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The maximum number of bytes of memory that a PHP script can use. This limit ensures that poorly-written scripts do not overwhelm your web server's memory. A value of -1 indicates that no memory limit exists. |
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The Warning: This feature was deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 and removed in PHP 5.4.0. |
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Whether to require execute permissions for the user who runs a PHP script. For example, if the script changes a file, the user needs the correct permissions to modify the file. Warning: This feature was deprecated in PHP 5.3.0 and removed in PHP 5.4.0. |
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The maximum number of bytes that an uploaded file can contain. |
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The location in which the system stores visitors' unique user IDs. The web server uses this ID to store information about the user's session, or time spent on your website. PHP allows you to make web content specific to a given visitor and session. Notes:
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