Do we need to explicitly pass php.ini's location to php-fpm?
- by F21
I am seeing a strange issue where my php.ini is not used if I do not explicitly pass it to php-fpm when starting it.
This is the upstart script I am using:
start on (filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo)
stop on runlevel [016]
pre-start script
mkdir -p /run/php
end script
expect fork
respawn
exec /usr/local/php/sbin/php-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php/php-fpm.conf
If PHP is started with the above, my php.ini is never used, even though it is in Configuration File (php.ini) Path.
This is the relevant part from phpinfo():
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php/
Loaded Configuration File (none)
Scan this dir for additional .ini files (none)
Additional .ini files parsed (none)
If I modify the last line of the upstart script to point php-fpm to php.ini explicitly:
exec /usr/local/php/sbin/php-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php/php-fpm.conf -c /etc/php/php.ini
Then we see that the php.ini is loaded:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php/
Loaded Configuration File /etc/php/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files (none)
Additional .ini files parsed (none)
Why is this the case? Is this a quirk in php-fpm?
Minor update: This also seems to be a problem for php5-fpm installed using apt-get.
I did a test install in a Ubuntu Server 12.04 virtual machine by running the following:
sudo apt-get install nginx php5-fpm
PHP-FPM and nginx were started after installation and everything seemed fine. I then uncommented php's settings in nginx's configuration and placed a test phpinfo() file to inspect PHP's settings.
The relevant bits are:
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php5/fpm
Loaded Configuration File (none)
Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
I noted that no php.ini was loaded either. However, if I go to /etc/php5/fpm, I can see that a php.ini exists. I also checked the start up scripts for PHP-FPM and the -c parameter was not used to link the ini file to PHP. This can potentially be confusing for people who would expect php.ini to be loaded automatically by PHP-FPM.
