Keith/guys thanks for the suggestions, here is what I have found. It shows loaded config file is /etc/php.ini but if I remove that file and restart apache it still works. I also did as Keith suggested I removed a comment ';' and I got no errors apache started and it loaded the /etc/php.ini file. It's just completely ignoring that file, if its there or if its not there. PHP Version 5.2.17 System Linux testip5.meganet.net 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 13:34:42 EST 2010 i686 Build Date Jan 7 2011 08:50:02 Configure Command './configure' '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-t1lib=/usr' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-pcre-regex' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--without-mime-magic' '--without-sqlite' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-system-tzdata' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' '--disable-json' '--without-pspell' '--disable-wddx' '--without-curl' '--disable-posix' '--disable-sysvmsg' '--disable-sysvshm' '--disable-sysvsem' Server API Apache 2.0 Handler Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc Loaded Configuration File /etc/php.ini Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php.d additional .ini files parsed /etc/php.d/Fileinfo.ini, /etc/php.d/curl.ini, /etc/php.d/dba.ini, /etc/php.d/dbase.ini, /etc/php.d/dom.ini, /etc/php.d/gd.ini, /etc/php.d/imap.ini, /etc/php.d/json.ini, /etc/php.d/ldap.ini, /etc/php.d/mbstring.ini, /etc/php.d/mcrypt.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php.d/odbc.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_odbc.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_pgsql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini, /etc/php.d/pgsql.ini, /etc/php.d/soap.ini, /etc/php.d/wddx.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlreader.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlrpc.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlwriter.ini, /etc/php.d/xsl.ini, /etc/php.d/zip.ini PHP API 20041225 PHP Extension 20060613 Zend Extension 220060519 Debug Build no Thread Safety disabled Zend Memory Manager enabled IPv6 Support enabled Registered PHP Streams https, ftps, compress.zlib, compress.bzip2, php, file, data, http, ftp, zip Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls Registered Stream Filters zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed Zend logo This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine: Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Roberts Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:01 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2 On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Eero Volotinen wrote: *snip* > how about running php --info from commandline? Good point Eero. Would that not just return the basic configuration settings for the CLI version of php? What if the OP has used a different php configuration for the apache php module, by using php configuration directives in the httpd.conf file? These php config settings would not show up when running the CLI version of php. Eg. /etc/php.ini ; open_basedir, if set, limits all file operations to the ; defined directory and below. This directive makes most ; sense if used in a per-directory or per-virtualhost web server ; configuration file. This directive is *NOT* affected by ; whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off. ; ; see also /etc/httpd.conf for overriding these settings for ; the apache php module. ; for CLI PHP version only open_basedir = "./:/tmp/:/loads/of/different/paths/here/:" ;open_basedir = "" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf #========================================================================== # APACHE ACCESS TO FILESYSTEM & SERVER DOCUMENT TREE #========================================================================== <Directory /> Options None AllowOverride None Order Deny,Allow Deny from all # These are the only directories which apache's PHP module # can have access to. This setting overrides the default # settings in the global php.ini file, which applies to # the CLI version of PHP. # php_admin_value open_basedir '/path/to/apache/doc_root:/another/path/to/linked/files/' php_admin_flag display_errors OFF </Directory> So using the httpd.conf php_admin_xxx directives, I can selectively turn on php errors for my development directories, only accessible by me (localhost). Any publicly accesible directories get php error reporting turned off. I do my web development in a seperate protected development tree, and then push the live code into another 'accessible to all' branch. 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