diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index d2c1757..97907db 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FROM cloudron/base:2.0.0@sha256:f9fea80513aa7c92fe2e7bf3978b54c8ac5222f47a9a32a7
 RUN mkdir -p /app/code
 WORKDIR /app/code
 
-ARG VERSION=1.16.2
+ARG VERSION=1.17.0
 RUN curl -L https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/archive/${VERSION}.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - --strip-components=1
 
 RUN mv data data-orig && ln -s /app/data data
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ RUN crudini --set /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini PHP upload_max_filesize 64M && \
     crudini --set /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini Session session.gc_probability 1 && \
     crudini --set /etc/php/7.3/apache2/php.ini Session session.gc_divisor 100
 
+RUN ln -s /app/data/php.ini /etc/php/7.3/apache2/conf.d/99-cloudron.ini && \
+    ln -s /app/data/php.ini /etc/php/7.3/cli/conf.d/99-cloudron.ini
+
 ADD start.sh /app/code/start.sh
 
 CMD [ "/app/code/start.sh" ]
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index dbd2766..3a3c24c 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ if ! [ -f /app/data/.installed ]; then
     echo "==> Done."
 fi
 
+if [[ ! -f /app/data/php.ini ]]; then
+    echo -e "; Add custom PHP configuration in this file\n; Settings here are merged with the package's built-in php.ini\n\n" > /app/data/php.ini
+fi
+
 echo "==> Symlinking log file"
 rm -f /app/data/users/_/log_api.txt
 touch /tmp/log_api.txt