note 60668 deleted from install.windows.apache2 by betz

Note Submitter: mmyers at crucialsecurity dot com ---- I wasted a good hour or two on solving this: no matter what I did, the output of my test php script (phpinfo()) would show that the php.ini file path was "C:\windows" -- this is apparently a secret code word for "the php ini file was not found at all". My php.ini file was in my PHP install directory, which I called "C:\php-5.1.2" If I placed the php.ini file in C:\windows, then I would just get a blank white page when I tried to run the test.php script. Wow, ok... These were my two mistakes...if you can call them mine, I blame Apache 2.0 for this lameness: * In httpd.conf, make sure your PHPIniDir directive comes before your LoadModule to load the PHP module. * You have to specify the path in quotes, and NOT have a trailing backslash. Either of these things ruins it (silently). Example of correct httpd.conf: # PHP stuff: PHPIniDir "C:\PHP-5.1.2" LoadModule php5_module "C:\PHP-5.1.2\php5apache2.dll" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php