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Note Submitter: php@s4r.de ---- This is about putting PHP.INI somewhere else than into %SYSTEMROOT when using the Apache2 webserver: You might want to do this, when you e.g. run several instances of Apache/PHP for testing or development reasons or when you mind having such an important file in the %SYSTEMROOT-Bermuda Triangle. Just put e.g. SetEnv PHPRC E:/PHP into your httpd.conf. Since httpd inherits the environment, you can also set an environment variable e.g. in windows (or in a .bat-file from which you start apache) called PHPRC and then add the following to your httpd.conf: PassEnv PHPRC It is important to know, that you should not have a trailing slash in your path and that the name of the php.ini is not part of the path. So your ini-file needs to be named php.ini. BUT!!! this works only with PHP as CGI, because the SAPI-version ignores PHPRC. But for testing and development this is not such a problem. Thomas