Problems with changing PHP config variables

Hey guys

So I'm having some problems with my PHP server config. I'm getting a bunch of timeouts on my development machine so I want to change the max_execution_time of my server. Unfortunately, this is not working out. Here is what I did so far:

• Located the ini file using phpinfo()
• updated the ini file using vim
• restarted the server
• looked at phpinfo() output again - no changes in config output

I also tried several other things such as ini_set() and set_time_limit but nothing seems to work. Any help with this issue is appreciated. My setup is the following:

• Ubuntu 14 VM with Vagrant and VMware Fusion
• PHP 5.6.10 and Apache 2.4