Comments on: PHP.ini Permission Problems on Windows Vista

By: Amadi

Amadi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:49:03 +0000

hi,
please could you give me the step by step process of correcting the path issue; C:\Windows. am i to change the setting to locate the php.ini file in the windows directory or can modify the settings to load forom C:\php5.

thanks
emma

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:38:27 +0000

~~Fuck~~ php. I’ve had trouble every single time I’ve installed it for IIS, or tried to upgrade it. Itself, it is great, but no developer for PHP has taken the time to make installation simple.

By: gcfrench: Installation

gcfrench: Installation — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:18:30 +0000

[...] Copy PHP.ini file in to C:windows using Notepad run as administrator (see Simon Whatley’s instructions) [...]

By: Thomas Tallyce

Thomas Tallyce — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:20:21 +0000

Good set of articles; your writing is very clear.

I wonder if you have come across the same problem that I have on WinVista/Apache2/PHP5:

I set my PHP ini settings in httpd.conf (either in the vhost or on a per-directory basis), so that each site can have its own settings, and the whole server be locked down easily without having to modify php.ini at all.

I’ve found however, that on Vista, periodically, the include_path value just gets forgotten about, and I have restart from the start menu with right-click > ‘Run as administrator’. After restarting, the include_path setting is then correct again, and the site functions fine.

(Having diffed a phpinfo() output page before and after this problem, I see the only changes are the Local Value for include_path, mbstring.internal_encoding and HTTP headers > Keep-Alive.)

Have you come across this? I’m baffled.. it’s as if it just forgets the setting after a while, and I can’t think why this is happening.