Nginx editing php.ini changes no reflecting

phpinfo says the file location is /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini.

Additional .ini files parsed

   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/curl.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/gd.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/mcrypt.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/mysql.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/mysqli.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/pdo.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/pdo_mysql.ini,
   /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/xcache.ini 

Looking in them none of them have anything that deals with post_max_filesize or upload_max_filesize.

I edit this in the php.ini file and restart both the nginx and php5-fpm service. The changes do not happen. The files are still edited. I have tried rebooting the computer.

Does NGINX cache this somewhere that I need to delete in order for these changes to be made live?

I have tried php -i | grep ".ini"

and it tells me the path for php.ini is Path => /etc/php5/cli/

The phpinfo() tells me its /etc/php5/fpm/

I have edited both with no luck.

if I do php -i | grep "post_max" it tells me its 20M, phpinfo still says 8M.

Have you tried to put your php.ini under /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini? This is normally the default location that php reads from, if I understand php5-fpm correctly.

You need to restart it. I use 7.0 so change the 7.0 to your version.

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm

I have the same problem in Centos 7 I used nginx as the webserver. I restared php-fpm service and my problem solved. the reason is nginx use php-fpm service for handling php the only way to reflect your changes is restart php-fpm service.

you need to run systemctl restart php-fpm