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I have this strange and stupid problem I'm trying to resolve for a couple of hours now. I have installed apache 2.2.10 (it was compiled from source a long time ago), and PHP-5.3.6. Both are working just great except for the fact I can't get PHP to load the php.ini file.

This is my config.nice file: 

'./configure' \ '--prefix=/usr/local/php-5.3.6' \ '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-5.3.6/lib' \ '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache-2.2.10/bin/apxs' \ '--with-curl' \ '--with-mysql' \ '--with-zlib' \ '--with-bz2' \ '--with-gd' \ '--with-jpeg-dir' \ '--with-png-dir' \ '--enable-mbstring' \ '--with-freetype-dir' \ '--with-t1lib' \ '--enable-gd-native-ttf' \ '--enable-gd-jis-conv' \ '--with-openssl' \ '--with-openssl-dir' \ '--enable-pcntl' \ "$@"

I've used this config.nice for all the PHP versions since 5.2 with slight changes and it is working this way on a couple of servers. It's probably something small I'm missing and I can't figure what it is.

I set the '--with-config-file-path' because I though php can't find it's own path or something. In the defined path I have a file called php.ini which is copied from the PHP 5.3.6 tarball (php.ini-development).

The file should be working as it's the original but I can't see because it's not loading - phpinfo() returns:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /usr/local/php-5.3.6/lib Loaded Configuration File: (none)

Does anybody have an idea what may be the problem ?

Relevant info:
@Server OS: Slackware 12.2
@Apache Version: 2.2.10
@Apache User / Group: daemon / daemon
@PHP Version: 5.3.6 (Latest)
@PHP ini file: /usr/local/php-5.3.6/lib/php.ini
@PHP ini file perms: 777 (daemon.daemon)

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I'm guessing the file isn't actually there or there is a permissions problem. I'd run echo "<?php phpinfo() ?>" | strace php 2>&1 | grep php.ini to see what is happening.

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  • The file is there 100% :) This is what I get when I entered your command - pastebin.com/X2XX9GiW Commented May 5, 2011 at 18:38
  • "Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/php-5.3.6/lib/php.ini" It worked that time. How are you calling php when it doesn't work? Commented May 5, 2011 at 18:59
  • Hmm... That's really strange. I'm calling it from a apache server (from my browser actually) Commented May 5, 2011 at 19:26
  • It is a permission problem. Apache usually doesn't run as root. That user needs to be able to read php.ini. You could make the perms 644 on it. Commented May 5, 2011 at 20:05
  • I figured it out. There was a "PHPINIDir" set in apache's virtual hosts. That was forcing apache to tell PHP "Use the php.ini in X dir" and there wasn't any php.ini there. Thanks for the help :) Commented May 5, 2011 at 20:07
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For people who still couldn't get this resolved: In my case, it was SELinux permissions that was preventing PHP loading php.ini. Changing the context for the php.ini file with the following commands did the trick: 

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_config_t "/usr/local/lib/php.ini" restorecon -v -R /usr/local/lib/
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