I’ve double checked the file - I’ve changed the same one the phpinfo.php file is referencing. I also restarted the php service with a success message as well as nginx.

Walk step-by-step on how you are changing the php.ini as you need root permissions to modify that file and to restart the service. I assume since you are using php5-fpm you are also using Nginx. If you are using Apache, you have a different config for it.

@electricjet

In some cases, in my experience, the php5-* init script from the repository packages does not always properly function (i.e. I’ve ran in to instances where php5-fpm doesn’t actually kill off the existing processes). In such a case, it’s a good idea to run service php5-fpm stop and then confirm that there are no existing processes still running.

You can effectively kill any processes by running:

killall -9 php5-fpm