This problem has been irritating me for days. I orinally did a manual install. Followed the directions, and php works, but won't read the ini file in C:\Windows.
Tried using the installer. PHP still will not read the ini file.
phpinfo() reveals that it is looking in C:\Windows for the ini file.
I am simply getting frantic over this as I need it to be working.
I am using IIS 6 and php 5.2.3 on windows 2k3.
And before you ask, yes I have rebotted the box.
As to how this was resolved, I duplicated the ini file and placed the copy in C:\PHP. PHP then detected the ini file in C:\Windows. I do not understand how or why this worked much less had any effect.
Furthermore, I have a new issue where only one of the two sites finds php. But that is for a different thread.