note 49580 deleted from faq.installation by nlopess

Note Submitter: danny at tamashamusic dot com Reason: added to the manual ---- I was having a lot of trouble getting PHP 5 with PWS 4.0 on Windows 98 to find my php.ini file, but then I realized that the manual had omitted a small but very important piece of information (which may be obvious to Windows gurus). The manual states that you should set the PHPRC environmental variable in your autoexec.bat file with the syntax: set PHPRC C:\php (replace C:\php with the directory where php.ini is located). This should actually be: set PHPRC=C:\php That "=" sign is very important! Your php.ini file will not be found if you do not include it! Also note that you must not use any spaces when defining the path to your php.ini file (this seems to be the only instance when that matters). You can simply substitute the DOS name for any folder names that have spaces. For instance, set PHPRC="C:\Program Files\PHP" does not work, but set PHPRC=C:\PROGRA~1\PHP does.