MISSING PHP.INI

Anon

I'm using RH 6.2 Linux, 2.2.16 kernel, apache 1.3.12, php 4.0.1pl2; the latest of e/t.

Been working with it for a while, and need to set up smtp to get the mail() command working.

phpinfo() reports that SMTP is "localhost", and I don't want to use that mail server, I want to use my ISP's mail server.

But I don't have a php.ini file ANYWHERE on my system!

Any ideas why this would be? Where should I get a php.ini file, and how would I format it?

(details please!?!? howto or something?)

PHP was installed with these ./configure parameters:

./configure \
--with-pgsql=/usr/lib/pgsql \
--with-mysql \
--with-gd \
--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs

Thanks!

Anon

Hunting through a phpinfo() result, I found that php.ini is SUPPOSED to be in /usr/local/lib.

So, I created a file there (as root) called php.ini, and entered in the single line

php_var SMTP mail.pacbell.net

and restarted Apache - no change.

I also tried

SMTP mail.pacbell.net

and

SMTP "mail.pacbell.net"

Again, no change.

HELP PLEASE!

-Ben

Anon

Actually PHP.INI is "supposed" tp be wherever you put it. If you read the INSTALL file it recommends copying the default file 'php-ini.dist' to 'php.ini' in the /usr/local/lib directory.

The reason the phpinfo shows it there is becuase that it the default compile option but the file is NOT copied there for you.

This might help: (Its in the 'php-ini.dist' file in the upacked dir.)

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; About this file ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; This file controls many aspects of PHP's behavior. In order for PHP to
; read it, it must be named 'php.ini'. PHP looks for it in the current
; working directory, in the path designated by the environment variable
; PHPRC, and in the path that was defined in compile time (in that order).
; Under Windows, the compile-time path is the Windows directory. The
; path in which the php.ini file is looked for can be overriden using
; the -c argument in command line mode.
;

anroy

I too had no php.ini file on my machine. Yet PHP has been working fine. 😕

Running the phpinfo() command it says it is here:
/usr/local/php/lib
which is not the case.

My goal is to write a custom extension, in C. I want to know where the extensions directory is. In the phpinfo() output it give the value of extension_dir as:
/usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20040412

There is in fact no such directory. That directory branch only goes as far as:
/usr/local/php/lib/php
and there is no folder called "extensions" in there.

I am really confused. I want to make an extension (which I am having a tough time with already) and I have no idea where to put it!!!

MySQL runs fine also, in fact I am calling it from my PHP code. I assume there is supposed to be something like mysql.so somewhere (or is there?), but I can't find such a thing. My whole setup is working as if by some kind of divine intervention. Which is OK as a user but is a problem when you are a developer!

schwim

I'm sure you guys know much more about it than I and this is probably common sense, and if so, I promise I'm not trying to insult your intelligence on the matter, but the php.net site states that if you're running php as a module, then the server needs to be restarted for the changes to take effect. It's in the section of the FAQ where it tells you how to find php.ini and how to tell whether it's being found or not.

I saw it while trying to fix my problem, and thought I'd at least mention it.

thanks,
json

anroy

schwim wrote:
I'm sure you guys know much more about it than I and this is probably common sense, and if so, I promise I'm not trying to insult your intelligence on the matter, but the php.net site states that if you're running php as a module, then the server needs to be restarted for the changes to take effect.

We didn't make changes to our php.ini files. The point both of us were making is that there simply is no php.ini file on our system!

bradgrafelman

So, I created a file there (as root) called php.ini, and entered in the single line

php_var SMTP mail.pacbell.net

Well, that's definitely the syntax for changing PHP directives in a .htaccess file, but NOT in the main php.ini file.

Any reason you're running a very old version of PHP? The latest PHP4 version is PHP 4.4.3 . I would highly recommend you upgrade.

Either way, it's probably best if you grab a php.ini from a new download of PHP and use it as a template. Visit this man page and download one of the files under "PHP 4.4.3". Inside, you'll find files such as "php.ini-dist" and "php.ini-recommended".

All you need to do is grab one of those, rename it to php.ini, configure it however you like, and stick it in /usr/local/lib/ .

EDIT: Just to clarify - without a php.ini file, PHP will just load default values for all of the directives.