How to use a custom php.ini file for cPanel cron jobs

This article describes how to use a custom php.ini file for cPanel cron jobs.

This article assumes that:
  • You know how to set up a cron job using cPanel. For information about how to do this, please see this article.
  • You know how to set up custom php.ini files. For more information about how to do this, please see this article.

Using a custom php.ini file for cPanel cron jobs

Different php.ini files, and therefore different settings, are used depending on how you run a PHP script. For example, scripts run from the command line, and scripts run from a cPanel cron job, run under different environments.

To specify the exact environment for a PHP script in a cPanel cron job, you can define the path to a custom php.ini file. To do this, use the -c option. For example, the following command runs the script.php file using the php.ini file located in the user's config directory:

/usr/local/bin/php -c ${HOME}/config/php.ini ${HOME}/script.php
A common scenario where you need a custom php.ini file is when a script must access remote URLs. To do this, you must enable the allow_url_fopen directive. For more information about how to do this, please see this article.
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