You can also access your PHP and MySQL configuration settings via the Drupal Status report. For PHP it's as simple as clicking on the PHP version number, which is hyperlinked in your Status report. The same goes for your MySQL version and settings.
Clicking on the PHP version link loads a php.info
file that resides in your site. This will give you all of your PHP core configuration settings and all of the PHP extensions you have loaded and enabled on your server. It's good to review this file for the following information that you'll need as you troubleshoot performance.
The location of your loaded php.ini
configuration file: It's good to know where the default php.ini
file is located on your web server. You can overwrite this configuration with a custom php.ini
file or with custom PHP setting code that you load into either your settings.php
and/or .htaccess
file. However, there may be times when you need to edit the original default php.ini
file as long...