php.ini for one user

[NLCJ]

Hello,
I've got a dedicated server with cPanel. A lot of friends have an account on it, no commercial use. But I don't trust all of those friends, I think the chance that one of those friends breaks the server or uses it for wrong purposes is big. The problem is: I am creating a website where users can upload files, everything is working great, but these files can be up to 5GB. Is there a possibility to set a php.ini for one user? So that my account got limits of 5GB while others still got limits of 8MB?

Thanks,
NLCJ

[JawadArshad]

You can copy a server level php.ini from /usr/local/lib/php.ini into a folder say /home/user/phpconfig and then add the line below to the .htaccess file of your account.

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/user/phpconfig

You can then update the variable upload_max_filesize in this local file to 5GB.

Note: You are allowed to use a local php.ini if you are running SuPHP. You can confirm and/or change this in WHM under the tab "Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Configure PHP and SuExec > PHP 5 Handler".

Hello,
I've got a dedicated server with cPanel. A lot of friends have an account on it, no commercial use. But I don't trust all of those friends, I think the chance that one of those friends breaks the server or uses it for wrong purposes is big. The problem is: I am creating a website where users can upload files, everything is working great, but these files can be up to 5GB. Is there a possibility to set a php.ini for one user? So that my account got limits of 5GB while others still got limits of 8MB?

Thanks,
NLCJ

[wayne_mu]

Hi,

As JawadArshad said , you can copy the server's php.ini into the account.

You can get the the path of the php.ini from the command :

php -i | grep php.ini

Mostly it's /usr/local/lib/php.ini .

Then you can copy php.ini under /home/username/public_html . I suggest you not to change the ownership of php.ini (that is keep it as root so that the user won't be able to make any changes to it).

After copying , you can write the following code unde the account's .htaccess

SetEnv PHPRC "/home/username/public_html"

that is the path of php.ini .

The above will make the settings under php.ini be applicable to the entire account.

If you want the change to be applicable only for a subfolder, then you can copy the server's php.ini under that subfolder and then you can write the code as below under the .htaccess

SetEnv PHPRC "/home/username/public_html/subfolder"

Hope this helps

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