Do I need to restart Apache after changing the php.ini file?

Question

If I make a change to a setting in the php.ini file - do I need to restart Apache in order for it to take effect?

Answer 1

On Debian 8 I had to restart PHP-FPM (and Apache) The above answers are correct, but here are the commands so you won't have to googling them.

Restart Apache :

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Restart php5-fpm :

sudo service php5-fpm restart