[SOLVED] second question on configuration

Greetings

I am quite new to system administration so this is likely just a noobie stupidity but - - - -

In trying to work through the configuration screen I am getting

>max_input_vars=1000 is too small - value should be at least 2000, 4000 recommended - check your php configuration (php.ini)

so I use

# locate php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-development
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-production
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-production.cli

change the value of

; How many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted
; max_input_vars = 4000

in all 6 to the above, then do a service apache2 restart - - - - and the configuration is still complaining that I'm only allowing 1000 and I should allow more.

How do I change the php.ini file or which one or ????? do I do to fix this ?

Gautier wrote: Hello,

"max_input_vars=1000 is too small - value should be at least 2000, 4000 recommended - check your php configuration (php.ini)."

You have to open php.ini and change the value of "max_input_vars" to 2500.

I had used the following:

# locate php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-development
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-production
/usr/lib/php/7.0/php.ini-production.cli

and had changed the value of this:

; How many GET/POST/COOKIE input variables may be accepted
; max_input_vars = 4000

to 4000 - - - - which was the recommended number.

So you are suggesting to change all 6 of the php.ini files so that they all read 2500 for this variable NOT 4000?

Please advise.

babynus wrote: you need to change only file
/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
and set value to 4000 (2500 will be good, but 4000 should be best)
Don't forget to remove the comment character ( and restart apache to take new parameter into account.

Thank you - - - - I changed the values but did NOT remove the comment character.

Will redo (all six) and then restart apache2.
After I figure out the chmod/chown thing (I think I would be best served by doing both rather than one or the other).

Is there a way of marking 'solved' for the issue?

Thanking you for the assistance.