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Setting PHP INI parameters from nginx

February 11th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

A little known feature in PHP-FPM 5.3.3+ (since it was integrated into PHP core) is that you can actually define PHP INI parameters inside of your nginx configuration. This bridges some of the desire to have "php_value" and "php_admin_value" from Apache available. It's not user-override-able, but things like htscanner or newer PHP 5.3 features could address some of that.

This is cool, and I wasn't sure it actually got in a build or not, I remember it was mentioned or discussed, but sure enough, Jérôme coded it and got it in to FPM in core. So it is available to all, and he welcomes the feedback - see this thread on the nginx mailing list.

Due to limitations in the FastCGI protocol, you have to pass all the parameters you want as a single string, separated by "\n" - it's not the cleanest looking configuration, but that's how it is for now. I spitballed a different approach to it, but at the moment I believe it will be unlikely to get adopted.

If you're like me, you're probably looking for the code samples almost immediately. Here's your examples. Note that PHP_VALUE and PHP_ADMIN_VALUE are both legitimate keys, the difference being that PHP_ADMIN_VALUE does not allow the user to override the value using ini_set() - see the manual for more infomation.

Single value:

fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE [email protected];

Multiple values, manually line-broken:

fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "[email protected]
precision=42";

Multiple values, with the \n in there to clearly call it out:

fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "[email protected] \n precision=42";

More information is available in the feature request on the PHP bug tracker.

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