[RESOLVED] php.ini not taking changes

mlfilms

Hi,
Sorry, I'm fairly new to php and am having trouble.

I have php installed on window iis 7.
Php info is attached (phpinfo.txt). I have the exact same php.ini files in each loaction (since I can't figure out what it wants) as shown by the ini file in a script I called phpinfo.php which i called up from the server....see results below.

Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\Windows

Loaded Configuration File C:\Program Files\PHP\php.ini

I have uncommented imap extension, but it's not showing up in the info file, as well as the error I get when I try to use an emial module for my site.

Also, i am getting "Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration." with phpmyadmin, though the extension is uncommented and the file is in the extension (ext) dir.

Please help. Let me know if yo need more.
Attached is the php.ini file as a txt file.
Thanks!

dagon

have you restarted php\server after changes where made?

mlfilms

Hi Dagon,
Yes, i have not only restarted the servers, I have rebooted the main webserver where this is located.

bradgrafelman

First off, you should have only one php.ini file on your computer. Remove any duplicate copies you may have created.

Second, where is the PHP main directory located?

Finally, do other changes to php.ini work? Such as, if you turn On in php.ini and do an iisrestart, does phpinfo() reflect that change?

mlfilms

bradgrafelman;10945613 wrote:
First off, you should have only one php.ini file on your computer. Remove any duplicate copies you may have created.

Removed from C:\windows
Doing a search I see one in C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\PHP

Shoulld that be there? I didn't create that.

bradgrafelman;10945613 wrote:
Second, where is the PHP main directory located?

c:\Program Files\PHP <---This is the file I edited for the next question//answer

bradgrafelman;10945613 wrote:
Finally, do other changes to php.ini work? Such as, if you turn On in php.ini and do an iisrestart, does phpinfo() reflect that change?

safe_mode Off Off
Turned on and phpinfo() reads
safe_mode On On
So it's reading the changes, right?

My extension directory is (from php.ini
; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir ="C:\Program Files\PHP\ext"
and there are extensions for all of the enabled extensions.

Thanks,
Mike

mlfilms

Also, I wen to the pear install with the command prompt and am getting thiese errors.

c:\Program Files\PHP\PEAR>pear list
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: gd: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mbstring: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mysql: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mysqli: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1
These options need to match
in Unknown on line 0

c:\Program Files\PHP\PEAR>

halojoy

PHP itself and also modules, like mysql.dll
can be compiled ts, thread safe
or nts non-thread-safe

Now, if your php.exe is compiled or a part of a ZIP download of php-package
which was compiled TS
PHP compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=1
then you can get an error if you use modules, extensions, like mysql.dll etc.
which are compiled NTS, non-thread-safe

Usually for PHP download, the file, installer or zip
which has NTS in package name is non-thread-safe.
If there is nothing about TS/NTS in the package name
it is usuallt TS. Thread safe is default, if not NTS is mentioned.

I run Apache 2.2 on Windows XP.
For this they recommend TS, PHP Package compiled thread safe.
So I installed php-5.3.0-Win32-VC6-x86 .. = thread safe
and not the alternative:
php-5.3.0-nts-Win32-VC6-x86

This means that some modules, extensions, if I download them separate afterwards
which are NTS, can eventually cause an error.
Because there is a mismatch with the way my PHP was compiled.

mlfilms

Would that explain the trouble with my issue above? Do I need to recompile?

bradgrafelman

Well, you could recompile PHP if you were feeling adventurous... though it'd be much simpler to grab a pre-built package from http://windows.php.net/download/ .

Look on the list of .zip files there and download the same version of PHP that you have now (or a newer one, if you want to upgrade at the same time - you might as well consider it). Make sure you download the appropriate version, depending upon which webserver you have - read the comments off to the left if you need guidance.

If you've downloaded the same version, simply replace all of the DLL's in your extension directory with the ones you've downloaded. If you're upgrading, save your php.ini file but replace everything else in the PHP directory.

mlfilms

I did a reinstall from the windows installer on that page and the changes were made.
Thanks for your help!
Mike