Hey,

I recently switched to use nginx on my VPS over at Dreamhost (everything is so much faster!).
I've manage to configure everything except how to use custom php.ini files

In apache i could call this in my .htacces
[code]
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler php-cgi .php
Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php-wrapper.fcgi
[/code]

and the php-wrapper.fcgi executed php5.cgi with my custom ini
[code]
#!/bin/sh
exec /dh/cgi-system/php5.cgi $*
[/code]

Is this possible to make in nginx?

Thanks,
Simon.

Can nobody help? Give any suggestions where i can look for the answer?
Guess i'll have to switch back to slowish apache.

Hi Simon,

Did you compile that php5.cgi for yourself, or is that something provided by DreamHost? I've only recently started working with nginx myself but I think I see where you are going. If you can compile your own, and I understand what you want to do, then you should look at patching php with something called php-fpm before you compile it. That adds fastcgi support and makes it so you can proxy from nginx to your custom version of PHP (which has it's own php.ini file) (search for "fastcgi_pass" to see examples.) If you need more than one customized version of PHP, you can have them running on different IPs and/or ports. If your VPS doesn't let you listen to other ports, then you might try putting each version of PHP on its own sub-domain, and proxy it that way.

Hope that helps,
Jon

Thanks for the response, though dh updated their wiki with the solution: copy the shared php.ini to ${HOME}/.php-ini
Works great.

(Remember to restart your webserver and php though)