In this guide we will install and configure PHP for Apache on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10. 1. Install PHP Let’s begin by updating the package lists. sudo apt-get update Now install PHP and associated packages. sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql 2. Configure Apache We will need to alter the dir.conf file to tell Apache…
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Firstly, you need to locate your php.ini file. In this example, our php.ini file is located in /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini In nano, press CTRL + W and search for upload_max_filesize and change the value to 64M (for 64 megabytes). /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini … upload_max_filesize = 64M … Press CTRL + W again and search for post_max_size and…
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To restart the PHP-FPM service and reload the configuration file, firstly check which version of PHP you are running: php -v PHP 7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.30-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2017, by Zend Technologies Above we can see…
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To edit the PHP-FPM config file in PHP 7. sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
Firstly, you need to locate your php.ini file. In this example, our php.ini file is located in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini In nano, press CTRL + W and search for upload_max_filesize and change the value to 64M (for 64 megabytes). /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini … upload_max_filesize = 64M … Press CTRL + W again and search for post_max_size and…
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As there are multiple versions of PHP with different sever configurations, php.ini could be located in several different folders.
Method 1 One way to find out exactly which php.ini file your web sever is using is by creating a new PHP file in document root called info.php. info.php <?php phpinfo(); Load this file in your browser, press CTRL + F and search for “Loaded Configuration File”. You should see something like /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini This will tell…
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$cache_file = getcwd().’/filename.cache’; if (file_exists($cache_file) && (filemtime($cache_file) > (time() – 60 * 9 ))) { header(‘Content-Type: application/json’); echo file_get_contents($cache_file); } else { $feed = “content to cache”; file_put_contents($cache_file, $feed, LOCK_EX); echo $feed; }
To print POST data array: echo print_r($_POST,true); If you want better legibility within a browser, wrap in <pre> tags. echo “<pre>”; echo print_r($_POST,true); echo “</pre>”;
To show the current year in PHP, for example, a copyright copyright notice in the footer of a web site: echo date(“Y”); More parameters format character Description Example returned values Day — — d Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros 01 to 31 D A textual representation of a day, three letters…
To set the PHP page to UTF-8, you can modify the HTTP header with: header(‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’);
