PHP.INI problem

Anon

Hi to all,

I've successfully compiled PHP 4.0.5dev with Apache 1.3.9 on my Redhat 6.2 after many tries.

If you go to http://www.antiquegunroom.com/test.php you will see my PHP info. However the info could never be changed even after I've copied php.ini to /usr/local/lib

The info you see at the url is not synchronised with the settings in the file. Why could this happen? I've rebooted the server many times but the info still wouldn't be updated.

Any help would be kindly appreciated.
Joe

Anon

Joe:

If I am understanding what you are asking then the answer is that the php.ini will be be built by default in the /usr/local/lib dir. That can be changed by specifying --prefix=<the path you want php> in when you do your configure.

I noticed as well when you do specify the --prefix=<whatever> make sure you create the php dir and the lib dir underneath otherwise sometimes the install won't copy anything anywhere.

hope that helps

Jonathan Post

Anon

Jonathon,

Thanks for your reply, but my problem is PHP4 is not reading the php.ini although it is placed in /usr/local/lib
Take a look at http://www.antiquegunroom.com/test.php

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Joe

edwardsbc

Well, on my linux box (php 4.0.0), phpinfo() returns only the path (/usr/local/lib) without the filename. If you create a directory called /usr/local/lib/php.ini/ and put your php.ini in it what happens? I'm just reaching here.

Also double check the permissions. "Nobody" must be able to read the ini file.

Anon

Craig,

No luck. Both of your suggestions don't work.

I've done a strace on httpd by issuing the following
command:
strace -o /tmp/file /usr/sbin/httpd -X
after that i do a grep on php.ini:
grep php.ini /tmp/file

The resulting output is
open("./php.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/php.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/lib/php.ini", O_RDONLY) = 4
lstat("/usr/local/lib/php.ini", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755,
st_size=24287, ...}) = 0
open("./php.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/php.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/local/lib/php.ini", O_RDONLY) = 4
lstat("/usr/local/lib/php.ini", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755,
st_size=24287, ...}) = 0

Hmmm.... Any ideas?

Thanks
Joe

Anon

Hi joe, I had the same problem and I hope that You alredy got it work... I decided ti post this anyway since there might be other people with the same problem...

The problem in my case was that there was a illegal entry in the php.ini file before it gets to include_path and such other important things. It seems that php stops parsing the file when an error occures. OK, I found the error (an accidental linefeed) and corrected it. Works just perfect now !!!

Bye.....