My plan to have NextCloud with its own php.ini file and WordPress with another went sideways. After reading tutorials that suggested I could, I read the comments that said NO! that method is no longer applicable. Only one PHP.ini file.
It seems that if I want to accomplish this, it needs to be set in the .htaccess file to over-ride the template set by a single php.ini file and there’s another configuration file has been suggested, I forget, I’m a little inebriated. Work in progress, may or may not amount to something. Some php.ini settings can be over-ridden, some can’t, it seems.
Anyhoo, it seems that this enterprise hasn’t been entirely without cost. I’ve exceeded the free download-from-server (upload-to-client) allowance. This is mainly because I’ve wiped and reloaded twice since the initial install and each time I’ve re-uploaded and (this is the bit where they charge) partially re-downloaded my cloud app content both times. Having shifted something in the region of 11.2GB (the free allowance is 5GB), I’m going to be charged 82 cents.
The wonderful thing is that this exists in the first place, and free of charge for low usage. It is your instance, your basic server, your PC on the internet, for eff all. Add to the fact that 1and1.co.uk allow you to register a domain name that ends in .co.uk free of cost and you can point it at the IP address of choice and grab all-you-can-eat subdomains* and tweak to your hearts content (or at least, so far as I have) utterly rocks. You wanna learn practical Linux web-server configuration? Do it!
82 cents. The first month isn’t out yet, and I’m charged 9 cents per GB downloaded. I’ll be charged less than a dollar for my first month cycle I guess, and that’ll be in nine days time. Less than a buck. Eighty pence. Sweet.
And I’m going to a local WordPress meet-up on Wednesday, see what else I can learn to do!
Over and out,
DT.
*10,000 subdomain allowance.