Restrict Overriding memory_limit in php.ini

Posted by Rohit Batra on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Rohit Batra
Published on 2014-05-27T06:20:47Z Indexed on 2014/05/27 15:30 UTC
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We have a issue that just came to our notice, some of our developers used ini_set('memory_limit', -1) to over-ride the php.ini memory_limit settings in their code files.

Due to which sometimes our Memory/CPU usage is way far more than usual and we even have experienced server hanging/crashing many times.

Is there any way to restrict these changes for certain params like memory_limit, upload_max_filesize & post_max_size? Users should not be able to edit them after a certain limit set?

Sorry if i asked a dumb question, tried searching but there was no reference to this only found answers asking for increasing these parameters.

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