note 67375 deleted from install.windows.apache2 by bjori

Note Submitter: foxn at zgi dot com Reason: in docs ---- I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a "feature", or an Apache problem; but I figuerd this info might save someone some time While installing PHP 5.1.4 as a module on Apache 2.0.58 on a Win XP-pro sp2 development box, I discovered 2 very important things. One, if the path to the php.ini dir in the httpd.conf file is a valid path but the dir does not contain a php.ini file php will launch and run off of a "ghost" php.ini file that it claims exists in C:/WINDOWS. This also happens if the path is correct and the dir contains the php.ini file but the path string in httpd.conf uses '\' instead of '/' with a '\' on the end. Two, the php.ini-recommended file did not launch php with this set up. The php.ini-dist file did.