{"id":1150,"date":"2020-11-26T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/11\/26\/4667515-how-to-manage-php-extensions-and-options-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:12","slug":"4667515-how-to-manage-php-extensions-and-options-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4667515-how-to-manage-php-extensions-and-options-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage PHP Extensions and Options in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The information below doesn&rsquo;t apply to websites created with <b>Hostinger Website Builder <\/b>&#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To manage your website&rsquo;s PHP extensions and options, go to the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> <\/b>section and click on<b> Dashboard <\/b>next to the website in question. Then, search for <b>PHP Configuration<\/b> on the sidebar and click on the given result to access those settings:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/79c6532d-f558-4057-9c8f-09415f7cc077.jpg\" alt=\"Accessing the PHP Configuration settings at Hostinger\" width=\"250\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">On the <b>PHP Configuration <\/b>page, open the preferred tab &ndash; PHP extensions or PHP options:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/8eb5adf9-d8d2-4180-b188-2e64ce820d24.jpg\" alt=\"Accessing the PHP Configuration settings at Hostinger\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_41a0a01e9c\">PHP Extensions<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">At the top of the page, you&rsquo;ll find a list of <b>Built-in Extensions<\/b> that come with your current PHP version. These extensions cannot be disabled. Below, you&rsquo;ll find a list of all the installed extensions and be able to enable or disable them according to your needs:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/78fa1ffb-d937-4f9a-94b5-71536bfc6397.jpg\" alt=\"Managing PHP extensions at Hostinger\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Available PHP extensions depend on the current <b><a href=\"\/support\/1575755-how-can-i-change-my-php-version\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">PHP version<\/a> <\/b>of your website &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After making any changes, remember to <b>save <\/b>them by clicking on <b>Save <\/b>at the bottom of the page.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To set all the values to default, click on <b>Reset<\/b>, which can be found at the bottom of the page:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/0083da21-0ec8-49e3-b4fc-9ff6cf266341.jpg\" alt=\"Managing PHP extensions at Hostinger\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_320281791c\">PHP Options <\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">At the top of the page, you&rsquo;ll find a list of basic options that you can enable or disable depending on your needs:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/11\/8bf8705e-2c5d-468a-855e-ec5958861183.jpg\" alt=\"Managing PHP options at Hostinger\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Below, you&rsquo;ll find parameters that you can edit. For instance, a <b><a href=\"\/support\/3212034-how-to-enable-shell_exec-exec-and-other-disabled-php-functions\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">list of disabled functions<\/a><\/b>. There, you can change values of some limits which by default are set to the maximum value available for your hosting plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing PHP extensions and options at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php-extensions-and-options"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4667515-how-to-manage-php-extensions-and-options-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4667515-como-administrar-las-extensiones-y-opciones-de-php-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4667515-comment-gerer-les-extensions-et-options-php-sur-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4667515-cara-mengelola-ekstensi-dan-opsi-php-di-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4667515-como-gerenciar-extensoes-e-opcoes-do-php-no-hpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/4667515-----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}