PHP 4.0 Bug #8066 Updated: php.ini file not accessible via symbolic link

ID: 8066 Updated by: stas Reported By: michael@auctionwatch.com Old-Status: Open Status: Feedback Bug Type: *Configuration Issues Assigned To: Comments: I fear you have some other problem here. Symlinks work with php.ini just fine, as they do with almost every other Unix program. Also, there *is* an option to specify configuration file path, it's --with-config-file-path. Please, verify that you indeed have problem with this setting and if so, please provide your configure line, phpinfo() output and result of the "ls -l" on relevant files. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-30 21:53:23] michael@auctionwatch.com Since PHP 4 does not give us the option to specify a configuration file (e.g. php.ini) at runtime, we decided that we would instead point CONFIGURATION_FILE_PATH at /etc and provide a symbolic link from /etc/php.ini to /our/path/php-cluster.ini. However, it appears that the config file reading routines will not traverse symbolic links. This essentially breaks our ability to have cluster-specific ini files. So, what we'd like to have fixed is the symlink traversal problem, and (more of an RFE) the ability to specify the config file itself (not just the path) at runtime. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8066