note 50724 deleted from ref.mime-magic by danbrown

Note Submitter: Bjorn dot Wiberg at its dot uu dot se ---- For those experiencing problems with "invalid magic file, disabled" in phpinfo() although everything seems to be set up correctly: It seems that the real error behind this is that the PHP mime_magic extension does NOT obey "php_admin_value mime_magic.magicfile" or "php_value mime_magic.magicfile" directives in httpd.conf, although the documentation states that mime_magic.magicfile should be settable from PHP_INI_SYSTEM, i.e., from php.ini and httpd.conf. Adding the following to php.ini correctly configures mime_magic (using an Apache 2-supplied magic file): [mime_magic] mime_magic.magicfile = "/etc/apache/magic" Furthermore, phpinfo() will SHOW any httpd.conf setting of mime_magic.magicfile that you make, but still not actually USE anything but what you specified in php.ini! Hopefully this can help someone. As the mime_magic extension is deprecated, it is not supported anymore, so I guess we can't expect any fixes to this. Even though many scripts still use the mime_magic functionality.