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Changing PHP settings

The values that most developers change are the memory limit and the max upload size. You can modify them in the settings and don’t need to go deep into configuration files.

Herd gives you easy access to the PHP configuration files on your machine, the easiest way to get to the file is to select the php.ini directory from the context menu of the settings.

Each installed PHP version has its own php.ini file located at %USERPROFILE%\.config\herd\bin\<version>\php.ini. You can edit this file to change the PHP settings for the specified PHP versions.

The changes will be immediately available to the PHP CLI version, but you will need to restart all Herd services to apply the changes to HTTP requests via nginx.

You can restart all services by clicking “Stop all” and then “Start all” in the Herd dropdown menu in the menu bar – it just takes 1-2 seconds.

Alternatively, you can use the herd restart command in the terminal.

herd restart