PHP.INI Not being parsed

Anon

Hi,

I've encountered a strage problem I've not seen before. I'm installing Apache, PHP , Modssl on a Solaris system. The installation is fine but when I call phpinfo() to see the values in the configuration file they don't seem to match what is in the php.ini file. It's looking at the right location /usr/local/lib/php.ini but any changes I make to this file are ignored. Yes I did restart Apache after each change in the ini file. I've never had this problem when built on a Linux box. I've also checked for other INI files on the system, but there were none. So where is it reading from the configuration values ??

I've installed PHP version 4.03Pl1.

Many thanks,
Mo

Anon

Hi!

I don't know the answer to your question, but I'm having the exact
same problem on a Linux server, and I've tried it both from php.ini
and .htaccess, but PHP happily ignores them.

If you've found the solution, could you please mail me?

Regards,
Henrik Mikael Kristensen

Anon

Henrik,

Here is my solution :

First clean out the previous install by deleting your "config.cache" files and do a "make clean" . Also delete all instances of the "php.ini" in your file system (usually in "/usr/local/lib" or "/usr/lib").

Now if you previously installed PHP as a static module you'll also have to reconfigure and reinstall Apache.

However if you want to install it as a dynamic module just configure it with the apxs option.

Here is an example setup after you have done the clean up. You should add the configuration options you normally use.

Good luck !
Mo.

extract tarballs

tar zxvf mm-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf openssl-0.9.6.tar.gz
tar zxvf mod_ssl-2.7.1-1.3.14.tar.gz
tar zxvf apache_1.3.14.tar.gz
tar zxvf php-4.0.3pl1.tar.gz

prepare apache

cd apache_1.3.14
./configure
cd ..

prepare mm

cd mm-1.1.3
./configure --disable-shared
make
cd ..

prepare openssl

cd openssl-0.9.6
./config -fPIC
make
make test
cd ..

prepare mod_ssl (and apache)

cd mod_ssl-2.7.1-1.3.14
./configure \
--with-apache=../apache_1.3.14 \
--with-ssl=../openssl-0.9.6 \
--with-mm=../mm-1.1.3 \
--enable-module=rewrite \
--enable-shared=max \

--enable-rule=SSL_SDBM \
--localstatedir=/var/apache
cd ..

compile apache (and mod_ssl)

cd apache_1.3.14
make
#make certificate
make install
cd ..

prepare php

./configure \
--withapxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
make
make install
cp php.ini-dist /usr/lib/php.ini
echo "Installation complete"
cd ..

chuggins

Well I HAD the same problem, but I fix it!!!

I was editing the php.ini with pico and some how the file got screwd so i just made changes on my win98 machine and save it with help of UltraEdit32 to UNIX format, uploaded and it worked fine.....

So the solution, is to be VERY careful Editing the php.ini file