Title: php settings
Last modified: November 19, 2016

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# php settings

 *  Resolved [evapparao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/evapparao/)
 * (@evapparao)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-settings/)
 * When I am trying to run PHP settings, I am getting this error: ERROR: The directory/
   var/www/html/ is not writable. This plugin requires writing permission to create.
   ini files.
    Can you help me to fix it My site is hosted on amazon web services

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 *  [FxMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fxman/)
 * (@fxman)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-settings/#post-8458590)
 * You could just create a text file and name it php.ini and upload it to the folder
   
   if there isn’t one already there. Make sure it has write permissions.
 * If your /html/ folder does not have write permissions, I would not change that.
 * You can also directly edit the php.ini file by ftp without a plugin if you
    know
   what directives you want to change.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Yoav Kadosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ykadosh/)
 * (@ykadosh)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-settings/#post-8504072)
 * What [@fxman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fxman/) said… The purpose of
   this plugin is to provide an easy interface for controlling your PHP settings.
   If you don’t have writing permissions, the plugin is useless.
 * Either change your writing permissions (not recommended) or upload a `php.ini`
   file with your settings. Newer versions of PHP (>=5.3.0) use `.user.ini` files
   for configuring PHP settings.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-settings/#post-8504072)
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