Re: Problem with php.ini

Tim Boring wrote: >I'm having a problem with php-cli and php_mod reading my php.ini file. >I've compiled php from source, during which process I set >"--with-config-file=/etc". Once the compile completed, I then copied >php.ini-recommened to /etc/php.ini. > >After restarting Apache, I run phpinfo() and "Configuration File Path" >is showing only "/etc", which means it's not find /etc/php.ini. So then >I tried the cli and ran phpinfo() from it and same thing. If I run it >as "php -c /etc/php.ini", it can find/read it. > >For what it's worth, this is happening on a Gentoo system, but this >shouldn't make too much of a difference since I've compiled PHP from >source (v5.0.4), the same source I've used on a couple of other >(non-Gentoo) machines. > >Just in case, here's the configure command I used: >'./configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2' '--disable-cgi' >'--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-openssl' '--with-zlib' >'-enable-bcmath' '--with-bz2' '--enable-calendar' >'--enable-dba' >'--with-db4' '--with-inifile' '--with-flatfile' >'--enable-dio' >'--enable-ftp' '--enable-gmp' '--with-unixODBC' >'--with-pgsql' >'--with-readline' '--enable-soap' '--enable-sockets' >'--enable-wddx' >'--with-xsl' '--with-pear' > >Any ideas? > > I think that --with-config-file-path is an absolute path to the php.ini file, and not just a directory name, although, it ought to default to php.ini, but perhaps when setting that directive it assumes that you are specifying a custom configuration file, for instance /etc/php5_alt.ini or /etc/my_php.ini instead of just php.ini. So, I think you should use the --sysconfdir directive instead if you just want to specify where PHP has its ini file. Regards, Torgny