On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Paul A wrote: > To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> > From: Paul A <razor at meganet.net> > Subject: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2 > > Hi originally I installed php 4 on centos 5.5 and then a > few repos including the remi repo to upgrade to php5, > which seems to upgrade/work without any issues. *snip* > I was wondering if anyone can tell me why apache is not > taking the settings from the /etc/php.ini file and it > works without that file. Hi Paul. Creat a php file with this as the contents: <head> <title>php-info</title> </head> <?php phpinfo(); ?> Then load that file into your web browser. It should produce a page showing all the active php configuration settings. Check the paths where php looks for it's php.ini files. Obviously you need to restart apache to make the php module read the changes you have made to the php.ini file. Putting a deliberate error in the php.ini file will confirm that you are in fact editing the correct php.ini file. ; === uncomment this line to force a php.ini parse error === ; you need to do apachectl stop [CR] apachectl start ; to force re-reading of php.ini ; 'apachectl restart' doesn't work under Linux ;----------------------------------------------------------- If this is a busy live server, then I'm not sure how you are going to do apachectl stop then apachectl start > rpm -qa php > > php-5.2.17-1.el5.art [root at karsites ~]# rpm -qa php php-5.3.3-1.el5.remi > php --ini > > PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library > '/usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_odbc.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_odbc.so: > undefined symbol: php_pdo_get_dbh_ce in Unknown on line 0 > > Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc > > Loaded Configuration File: (none) ^^^^^^ This could be where your problem is. The above line should contain the name of the configuration file php has found and loaded, like this: [root at karsites ~]# php --ini Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc Loaded Configuration File: /etc/php.ini Scan for additional .ini files in: /etc/php.d Additional .ini files parsed: /etc/php.d/curl.ini, /etc/php.d/dom.ini, /etc/php.d/fileinfo.ini, /etc/php.d/json.ini, /etc/php.d/mbstring.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini, /etc/php.d/phar.ini, /etc/php.d/soap.ini, /etc/php.d/sqlite.ini, /etc/php.d/wddx.ini, /etc/php.d/xdebug.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlreader.ini, /etc/php.d/xmlwriter.ini, /etc/php.d/xsl.ini, /etc/php.d/zip.ini [root at karsites ~]# HTH Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------