You can add or override fastcgi params you just have to understand the
behavior of the array.

Also afaik _ENV is only for cli. Use _SERVER instead. Also php 5.3 has
overrides built in now on the user level and you cam use htscanner.
Because some settings you won't be able to change via ini_set either.

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On Nov 14, 2009, at 8:59 AM, "kyleb" <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:22:55 +0100, Life Hunter wrote:
>
>> I have setup PHP with spawn-fcgi, PHP work well, but how to pass
>> custom
>> settings to PHP per virtualhost ?
>>
>> Like this, for example (.htaccess get from RoundCube webmail) :
>>
>> "php_value upload_max_filesize 5M"
>
> This works just fine:
>
> location /somewhere {
> fastcgi_param ENV_NAME "Value for Somewhere";
> }
> location /else {
> fastcgi_param ENV_NAME "Value for somewhere else.";
> }
>
> If you are setting something that php doesn't read from its
> environment, just use ini_set() with $_SERVER or $_ENV. If the
> value you want isn't PHP_INI_ALL, there might be another way to get
> it in; too bad php-cgi environment usage seems undocumented in the
> manual.
>
> I see no reason why this shouldn't work with a server block, too,
> for virtual host. Try also nginx's max request size parameters for
> your use case.
>
> N.b., most/all fastcgi settings don't in if () {} blocks. That
> would be a feature request on my part, particularly to set different
> timeouts for GET and POST requests.
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,22556,22861#msg-22861
>
>