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...@junkmail.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_filesize'. 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