PHP.ini Fine from command line - Ignored by Apache

[Evilgonzo]

Ive been going round in circles for ages, when viewing the output of a
test file that simply prints the phpinfo data when viewed via the
command line the php output shows all relevant config data as read via
/etc/php.ini however when viewed via the web this is not the case, even
though phpinfo says it is reading from the same file /etc/php.ini
There are no other php.ini files on the entire system.

Any ideas please?

Snippets of both outputs

First from the web/Apache

=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-system-tzdata' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' '--without-odbc' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' Server API Apache 2.0 Handler Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php.ini

Secondly from the command line

le-xmlwriter=shared' '--enable-fastcgi' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared,/usr' '--with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/usr' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared,/usr' '--enable-dbase=shared' Server API => Command Line Interface Virtual Directory Support => disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php.ini

As you can see from the outputs, whats enabled/disabled is not the same
as when viewed from the web various loaded modules are not enabled. Its basically like Apache is totally ignoring php.ini
I have tried adding

PHPIniDir "/etc"

into the apache conf (even tho phpinfo output indicates it knows where php.ini is already) but to no avail.

[NogDog]

Just a couple thoughts which may or may not apply:

If you changed the php.ini file, did you restart Apache afterwords?

Is there a .htaccess file anywhere in the directory tree of the script that might be overriding any settings when run via Apache?

I think some configuration settings are not applicable in command line mode, so you might want to check for that if neither of the above address the issue.