Custom php.ini in EA4 cPanel servers

Here, I will discuss on how to enable custom php.ini on your cpanel servers running EA4.

Normally what we do is to find the php.ini file and copy it to your home directory and change the values in php.ini which was copied in home directory and it should work. In the case of EA4, this wont be working. We have to follow the steps given below.

Find whether local.ini file is present in the configuration directory.

/opt/cpanel/ea-php/root/etc/php.d/

[root@server public_html]# ls -ld /opt/cpanel/ea-php*/root/etc/php.d/local.ini

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 20 02:16 /opt/cpanel/ea-php55/root/etc/php.d/local.ini

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 20 02:16 /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.d/local.ini

Copy server php.ini to your home directory  and modify the parameters that are needed.

[root@server public_html]# cp /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.ini /home/abs/public_html
[root@server public_html]# chown abs.abs /home/abs/public_html/php.ini

There are certain situations where local.ini file doesn't exists on php configuration folder. In that case, we would need to follow the steps given below to generate local.ini

[root@server public_html]# echo 'user_ini.filename = "php.ini"' > /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.d/local.ini

[root@server public_html]# /scripts/restartsrv_httpd 

Now custom php.ini should be working fine on your cPanel EA4 servers.

Notes :
* Ensure that you dont use suphp_configpath in .htaccess
* Loaded configuration file in phpinfo page wont be changed to custom one but the changed in cutom php.ini should be reflected in phpinfo page.

Wordpress Multisite Network Admin RedirectLoop

There are certain cases where we got the issues like this on wordpress multisite with subdomains. Here I have configured wordpress multisites on my domain and sites were working fine. But when I tried to access wordpress multisite network admin eg: domain.com/wp-admin/network , I'm getting the error "Redirect Loop"

In the case of multisite, your current site and blog domain should be equivalent and your current site path and blog path should also be equivalent. Here , blog domain was different from sitedomain.
I have set the blog domain as domain.com and site domain as www.domain.com which was causing the redirect loop.

After correcting the blog domain, everything was working fine as expected.

Login to mysql

# mysql
mysql> use user_wp
Database changed

mysql> select * from user_blogs;

*************************** 1. row ***************************

     blog_id: 1

     site_id: 1

     domain: domain.com

     path: /

     registered: 2017-07-13 09:05:19

     last_updated: 2017-07-27 09:39:07

     public: 1

     archived: 0

     mature: 0

     spam: 0

     deleted: 0

     lang_id: 0

mysql> update user_blogs SET domain = 'www.domain.com' where blog_id = "1";

Hope this will help you to resolve this issue.