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PHP Settings

PHP back-end allows advanced interactions of your websites. It is a widely used back-end and has different kinds of integrations. The most common way is bundled with Database. You may customize different PHP environments with individual profile settings.

To add a PHP profile:

  1. Click Create.
  2. Fill the Profile Name and Description fields for this profile.
  3. Select the PHP back-end version you wish to use from the drop-down list.
  4. Configure different kind of settings for this profile.
  5. For more details on profile settings, check the General Settings, FPM, and Core tabs.
  6. Click OK to save settings.

General Settings

In the General Settings tab, you can configure basic settings for the PHP profile, such as enabling opcache and PHP extensions.

To enable PHP cache:

Tick Enable PHP cache if you wish to enhance the PHP performance. However, it may not take effect under some circumstances.

To display PHP error message on the webpage:

Tick Enable display_errors to display PHP error message if you want to display PHP error messages on the webpage.

To customize PHP open_basedir:

  1. Tick Customize PHP open_basedir if you wish to customize your own open_basedir.
  2. Type the customized path in the text field and then click Apply. If you want to use the system default setting, uncheck the Customize PHP open_basedir and click Apply.

Note:

  • Use a colon (:) to separate each path. For example /etc:/tmp:/usr/bin/php.
  • For security reasons, paths for the homes shared folder (e.g. /volume1/homes) cannot be added to open_basedir.

To enable or disable PHP extensions:

Commonly seen modules are built-in in the extension list and you may enable the ones to customize the need for your website. Such as APCu, bz2, curl, dba, gd, mcrypt, mssql, opcache, pgsql, session, sqlite3, etc. You can customize different back-end according to your needs.

  1. In the extension list, tick or untick the extensions you wish to enable or disable.
  2. Click OK to save settings.

FPM

In the FPM tab, you can adjust the settings of PHP FastCGI Process Manager (FPM).

  1. In the PHP Settings page, double-click on the desired PHP profile.
  2. Go to the FPM tab and modify the following values according to your needs:
    • FPM mode: You can set the FPM mode to Dynamic, Static, or On demand.
    • Max processes
    • Start servers
    • Min spare servers
    • Max spare servers
  3. Click OK to save settings.

Note:

Core

The Core tab contains all the PHP ini settings, such as sendmail_path and sendmail_from.

  1. In the PHP Settings page, double-click on the desired PHP profile.
  2. Go to the Core tab.
  3. Find the ini setting that you want to edit. You can type the name into the search bar.
  4. Click on the value in the right column to edit it.
  5. Click OK to save settings.
General Settings
FPM
Core