Posted by Chuck Anderson on 07/25/06 04:58

My Web Host (Linux - Apache) recently upgraded to Php5. One thing lost
in the upgrade was a global configuration that allowed me to place
php.ini files in any directory and they would be read and used (I don't
know if that was in addition to a global php.ini file or not).

Prior to that (a couple of years ago) php directives were placed in the
htaccess file in the site's root directory, but after an even earlier
upgrade the htaccess directives gave a 500 Server Error. That is when I
was started using local php.ini files instead.

Now I can do neither. The local php.ini files are no longer used and
adding php directives to htaccess causes a 500 Server error.

The directive I am most concerned with is include_path, so I can keep
include files outside of the web site.

I have communicated with my web host a few times about this and they
seem to have no idea what needs to be done. I know, this is pretty
shoddy on their part, but in all other things this host has been very
good, so I'd rather stick with them.

Does anyone have any idea what kind of configuration they used that
allowed the local php ini files to be used?

Is there an Apache configuration directive needed to allow php
directives in the htaccess file?

Thanks for any pointers.

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