PHP FastCGI SAPI: Reloading PHP Configuration

Question

I am using PHP FastCGI SAPI on my web hosting environment to run PHP applications. To spawn FCGI processes I use spawn-fcgi helper program. My problem is whenever I make a change to php.ini file, I have to kill and respawn each FastCGI server for the new configuration to take effect.

Is there a way to reload PHP configuration(ie. php.ini directives) without respawning each FastCGI server? I try sending hangup signal (ie. kill -HUP PHPCGIPID) to the servers but this will result in termination of the servers.

Answer 1

The .user.ini files will be read during the startup of each request by the fcgi sapi module.
Besides that I have only found code that reads the php.ini when the module is started (i.e. when the fcgi process is created).
You might want to ask this question on server fault.