Title: PHP7 + PHP-FPM Last modified: November 18, 2016 --- # PHP7 + PHP-FPM * Resolved [Castor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/castoruk/) * (@castoruk) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/) * I’m looking at upgrading a number of WP site to use PHP7 and possibly PHP-FPM. * Are there any issues or actions I need to take into consideration for NF? * Thanks in advance. Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/) * (@nintechnet) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8454247) * Hi, * You can check this article: [Upgrading to PHP 7 with NinjaFirewall installed](http://blog.nintechnet.com/upgrading-to-php-7-with-ninjafirewall-installed/). As indicated, if you are using a `php.ini` file, you will likely need to rename it to `.user.ini`. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8468799) * Recently upgraded to php-fpm and I get a notice in all sites “NinjaFirewall fatal error: Unable to communicate with the firewall. Please check your PHP INI settings. Review your installation, your site is not protected.”. * So I go through the steps in the plugin to set it up but it doesn’t put anything in the htaccess so the site knows where the user.ini file is. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8468833) * Uploaded wp-check.php and it said in red “php.ini found – .user.ini found – Warning: you have more than one INI file”. * Is this my issue? I’ve always used user.ini, never really used the php.ini until upgrading to php 7. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8468844) * So I re-ran the setup steps and selected php.ini. It put the code into the php. ini file. I removed the user.ini. Plugin still says “Error: the firewall is not loaded.”. Same thing after restarting apache. * Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/) * (@nintechnet) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8469103) * Hi * With your configuration, you would probably need to use `.user.ini` and, after adding NinjaFirewall’s directive to it, to restart PHP-FPM: In Debian (incl. Ubuntu, Mint etc): `# service php7.0-fpm restart` or `# service php7.0-fpm restart`. In RedHat (incl. CentOS): `# /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart` or `# service php-fpm restart` Using `reload` instead of `restart` will work too. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8471286) * Selected user.ini, restarted php/apache and I see “Error: the firewall is not loaded.”. * Cpanel was updated to version 60, before this all the sites’ ninjafiewall worked. Now after version 60, php-fpm was available so it was turned on for the sites. They’re much faster now, but the plugin stoped working on them all. Thats all thats changed. - This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/). * Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/) * (@nintechnet) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8474055) * Can you contact cPanel and ask them why PHP INI files stopped working after the update to v60? I assume it is just a small configuration problem. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8483556) * Seems with cpanel php-fpm the php.ini file in the domain directory is ignored and you have to place the items from the php.ini into the domain’s fpm config file. * [https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-fpm-and-php-ini.582382/](https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-fpm-and-php-ini.582382/) * Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/) * (@nintechnet) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8484803) * Does NinjaFirewall work now? * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8494390) * I’m not messing with the php-fpm config files to get this working, so no, not working at this point. * Weird thing is all the sites also started sending “[NinjaFirewall] Security rules update” AND “NinjaFirewall] Daily Activity Report” even though when I go to those sites to again turn off the notifications I can’t because it says “Error: the firewall is not loaded.”. * [jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) * (@jgjh151) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8494426) * Cpanel thread if interested: [https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-fpm-and-php-ini.582382](https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-fpm-and-php-ini.582382) * Plugin Author [nintechnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nintechnet/) * (@nintechnet) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-8496276) * > Weird thing is all the sites also started sending “[NinjaFirewall] Security > rules update” AND “NinjaFirewall] Daily Activity Report” * That’s normal, the plugin is enabled. Disable it from the “Plugins” page to stop notifications. * [jomo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanmoorebcsorg/) * (@jonathanmoorebcsorg) * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php7-php-fpm-2/#post-9038116) * [@jgjh151](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgjh151/) thanks for posting the Cpanel thread… did you solve it? 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