php.ini set up problem

[mike]

Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_fil esize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

[Jerry Stuckle]

mike wrote:

Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_fil esize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

Still trying, Mike?

As I told you before - PHP has default values it uses if it can't find a
php.ini file. The easiest way for right now is to place a php.ini file
with the values you want in your c:\windows directory, then restart IIS.

If you're not going to follow suggestions, why do you even ask?

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[mike]

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

mike wrote:

>Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_fi lesize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS
server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

Still trying, Mike?

As I told you before - PHP has default values it uses if it can't find a
php.ini file. The easiest way for right now is to place a php.ini file
with the values you want in your c:\windows directory, then restart IIS.

If you're not going to follow suggestions, why do you even ask?

Sorry your have such a bad day jerry, wife not giving you any again?

If your not going to read the posts why answer?

[Jerry Stuckle]

mike wrote:

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>mike wrote:

>>Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_f ilesize'. I have scanned my computer and the only
php.ini file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change
entries in that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the
values are not getting updated. This is still true after I start and
stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

Still trying, Mike?

As I told you before - PHP has default values it uses if it can't find
a php.ini file. The easiest way for right now is to place a php.ini
file with the values you want in your c:\windows directory, then
restart IIS.

If you're not going to follow suggestions, why do you even ask?

Sorry your have such a bad day jerry, wife not giving you any again?

If your not going to read the posts why answer?

I did read your posts. And I answered. But you aren't taking the advice.

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[petersprc]

Hi,

It does sound like the installation was corrupted somehow. Are you
able to reinstall PHP using the package at php.net/downloads.php?

Regards,

John Peters

On Mar 8, 10:38 pm, mike <spammesi...@ju nkmail.comwrote :

Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_fil esize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

[mike]

petersprc wrote:

Hi,

It does sound like the installation was corrupted somehow. Are you
able to reinstall PHP using the package at php.net/downloads.php?

Regards,

John Peters

On Mar 8, 10:38 pm, mike <spammesi...@ju nkmail.comwrote :

>>Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_f ilesize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks. I can not
run even simple scripts like phpinfo() or echoing. However if I just
change the name of the file to something like xphp.ini then php will
start working again.

Q1: where does php get its initial ini data if not from php.ini

Q2: why does php break when I copy the php.ini file to the directory
requested in its path.

Thanks
Mike

Hi John,

Thanks, thats the site where I got the original binaries from,
"php-5.2.5-win32-installer.msi". The install went fairly smoothly.
I could try to reinstall. Are you using php on a windows system?
If so did you place the php.ini file in the c:\windows directory?

Thanks
Mike

[Jeff Gaines]

On 09/03/2008 in message <LH************ *****@nlpi061.n bdc.sbc.commike
wrote:

>If so did you place the php.ini file in the c:\windows directory?

My ini file is:
C:\Program Files\PHP\php.i ni

During various installs on XP the ini file has alwasy ended up in the php
drectory.

There is also an entry in my httpd.conf file:
#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL
PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/PHP/"
LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/PHP/php5apache2_2.d ll"
#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

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[Paul Herber]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:38:08 GMT, mike <sp*********@ju nkmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi,

I am very new to PHP I am having php.ini problems. I am working in XP
with IIS and have php installed as an ISAPI. I am trying to change
values in my php environment like 'upload_tmp_dir ',
'upload_max_fi lesize'. I have scanned my computer and the only php.ini
file on the machine is in C:\Program Files\PHP. If I change entries in
that php.ini file and run phpinfo() it appears that the values are not
getting updated. This is still true after I start and stop the IIS server.

Also the phpinfo() reports my path to the php.ini file is c:\windows,
but there is no php.ini file in that directory. If I copy the php.ini
file to c:\windows and restart the server, then php breaks.

What do you mean by 'php breaks'? What does/doesn't it do?
The fact that putting the php.ini file in c:/windows affects operation
certainly proves that that is the correct place for it. Put a standard
php.ini file here then sort out problems from there.

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[mike]

Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 09/03/2008 in message <LH************ *****@nlpi061.n bdc.sbc.commike
wrote:

>If so did you place the php.ini file in the c:\windows directory?

My ini file is:
C:\Program Files\PHP\php.i ni

During various installs on XP the ini file has alwasy ended up in the
php drectory.

There is also an entry in my httpd.conf file:
#BEGIN PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL
PHPIniDir "C:/Program Files/PHP/"
LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/PHP/php5apache2_2.d ll"
#END PHP INSTALLER EDITS - REMOVE ONLY ON UNINSTALL

I did indeed. I restarted the server and php stopped working. So I
uninstalled php, reinstalled but put the installation in C:/PHP instead
of C:\Program Files\PHP, put the php.ini file in C:\windows, restarted
the server. Now when I do a phpinfo() it is reading the file kind of.
phpinfo() shows that it is finding the file. It shows the proper
upload_tmp_dir. I can change some things like upload_max_file size in the
php.ini file that get picked up after restarting the server. However,
some things are not getting picked up like extension_dir is not getting
changed from the php.ini

One weird thing happened on the php reinstall. I made a vertual
directory for my php scripts under wwwroot. For some reason the
reinstall left a copy of php.exe in that directory. I used the
automatic windows installer file. Maybe I should do this manually.

looks like you are using a apache server. I do not see a httpd.conf
file in my PHP directory. Is that file specific to the apache install?
Where is the file located.

Thanks
Mike

[Jeff Gaines]

On 09/03/2008 in message <X4************ *****@nlpi061.n bdc.sbc.commike
wrote:

>looks like you are using a apache server. I do not see a httpd.conf
file in my PHP directory. Is that file specific to the apache install?
Where is the file located.

Yes I am using Apache - it is in:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apac he2.2\bin

and httpd.conf is in:
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apac he2.2\conf

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