Can't increase memory_limit on PHP

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Nextcloud version : 24.0.12
Operating system and version : “Ubuntu 22.04”
Apache: Apache/2.4.52`
PHP version: 7.4

Issue:
No matter how many times i update the php.ini file to increase the memory_limit size, then restart the php7.4-fpm service, the information displayed on web interface still holds the same 128M memory limit.

I’m not a web admin and I’ve tried updating the information in both directories for /cli and /fpm using root, and restarting apache2 service but still no success.

How can I properly upgrade the memory limit? Or how can I upgrade the PHP server to 8 if that’s recommended?

Thanks

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just an idea

In this post the solution was

sudo a2dismod php7.4
sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork
sudo a2enmod mpm_event
sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
sudo a2enconf php7.4-fpm

sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl restart php7.4-fpm

and have a look at “all” your php-fpm settings

# grep -R “memory_limit” /etc/php/

check if any “memory_limit” value is out of your prefered range

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The key bit here was likely this^^^.

When using FPM mode, PHP runs as a separate process from the web service (Apache in this case). So restarting the Apache service wasn’t sufficient to activate the PHP ini changes.

This is in contrast to non-FPM mode, like when using mod_php, where PHP is directly embedded within the Apache server.

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