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For the changes to take effect, restart the app.

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## Enable PHP extensions

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The built-in PHP installations contain the most commonly used extensions. You can enable more extensions in the same way that you [customize php.ini directives](#customize-php_ini_system-directives).

> [!NOTE]
> The best way to see the PHP version and the current `php.ini` configuration is to call [`phpinfo()`](https://php.net/manual/function.phpinfo.php) in your app.

To enable other extensions, use the following steps:

1. Add a `bin` directory to the root directory of your app, and put the *.dll* extension files in it, for example, `mongodb.dll`. Make sure that the extensions are compatible with the PHP version in Azure, and that they're VC9 and non-thread-safe (NTS) compatible.

1. Deploy your changes.

1. Follow the steps in [Customize PHP_INI_SYSTEM directives](#customize-php_ini_system-directives), and add the extensions into the custom .ini file with the [extension](https://www.php.net/manual/ini.core.php#ini.extension) or [zend_extension](https://www.php.net/manual/ini.core.php#ini.zend-extension) directive:

   

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## Set the PHP version

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To set the PHP version to 8.1, run the following command:

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[!INCLUDE [outdated-runtimes](includes/outdated-runtimes.md)]

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## Run Composer

If you want App Service to run [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) at deployment time, the easiest way is to include Composer in your repository.

From a local terminal window, change the directory to your repository root. Then, follow the instructions at [Download Composer](https://getcomposer.org/download/) to download `composer.phar` to the directory root.

Run the following commands. To run them, you need [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm) installed.

## Change the site root

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The web framework of your choice might use a subdirectory as the site root. For example, [Laravel](https://laravel.com/) uses the `public/` subdirectory as the site root.

To customize the site root, set the virtual application path for the app by using the [`az resource update`](/cli/azure/resource#az-resource-update) command. The following example sets the site root to the `public/` subdirectory in your repository:

By default, Azure App Service points the root virtual application path (`/`) to the root directory of the deployed application files (`sites\wwwroot`).

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The web framework of your choice might use a subdirectory as the site root. For example, [Laravel](https://laravel.com/) uses the `public/` subdirectory as the site root.

The default PHP image for App Service uses NGINX, and you change the site root by [configuring the NGINX server with the `root` directive](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/serving-static-content/). This [example configuration file](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/laravel-tasks/blob/main/default) contains the following snippet that changes the `root` directive:

In the Azure portal, select your app. Under **Development Tools** in the sidebar menu, select **Advanced Tools**, and then go to `d:\home\site` using SSH.

Create a directory in `d:\home\site` called `ini`. Then, create an *.ini* file in the `d:\home\site\ini` directory, for example, `settings.ini`, with the directives that you want to customize. Use the same syntax that you would use in a `php.ini` file.

For example, to change the value of [`expose_php`](https://php.net/manual/ini.core.php#ini.expose-php), run the following commands: