Weird. PHP has own ideas about php.ini location

[dugla]

Ok this is just plain weird.

My setup: Apache + PHP. Here's how I configured php during the build from source:

./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
--with-mysql
--prefix=/usr/local/apache/php
--with-config=/usr/local/apache/php
--enable-track-vars
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
--disable-cgi
--with-zlib
--with-gettext

The path to php.ini is: /usr/local/apache/php/php.ini

However PHP has somehow convinced itself that php.ini actually lives here:
/usr/local/apache/php/lib/php.ini.

But there is no php.ini at that location. Huh?

I've run find from / and there is only one php.ini. In the location I placed it.

Can someone please shed some light on this odd situation?

Thanks a lot.

-Douglass Turner

[Moonglobe]

php will work just fine with no php.ini. it will use the built-in master values. just place your php.ini where it thinks it is, it'll be less trouble than gettting it to look at yours where it is now.

[dugla]

Moonglobe,

Note done yet my friend. I went ahead and just moved php.ini.

running php -i from the command line echoed the settings I've made in php.ini. However running http://localhost/echo.php which simply calls phpinfo() ignores them.

Why is there a difference between these results? They should be identical right?

I'm stumped.

-Douglass

[dugla]

Whoops, my bad. All is well. I forgot to restart my Apache server to grab the new settings.

-Douglass