Bug #10598 Updated: Windows Protocol & ini file placement

ID: 10598 Updated by: sniper Reported By: jtjohnston@courrier.usherb.ca Old Status: Open Status: Feedback Bug Type: *Configuration Issues Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 4.0.5 New Comment: Did the PHPRC environment variable help or not? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-05-02 03:56:28] brianlmoon@php.net While I do agree with you that this is a pain, there is a possible solution assuming that you can set environment variables on your machine. Set PHPRC to the path where the php.ini file is. Then PHP will look there instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-05-02 03:17:12] jtjohnston@courrier.usherb.ca I've been running PHP with this: http://www.php.net/do_download.php?download_file=php405-installer.exe&source_site=www.php.net Basically, I have a problem with the placement of your php.ini. I would have thought, hoped it would run from the php directory as well as the windows directory. This is standard Windows protocol. A windows *.exe "normally" prioritises looking in the app directory and then in the windows directory for the location of *.ini files. Your Msvcrt.dll was installed in my network drive: t:\php\ and works like a charm; so should the php.ini!. My at-work installation of windows is NT Server based and I don't have permissions to access D:\ntdir where NT was installed. I'm running a http microweb out of a separate directory and hoped to make use of PHP at work. I can't because I can't put the php in the windows directory. It won't work in my network drive: t:\php\php.ini While my case may or may not be non-standard, your port to windows lack in basic *.ini protocol. It "should" look in the app directory to see if the ini exists there too! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10598&edit=1