Posted by Lester Caine on 10/04/67 11:05

Ranjan K. Baisak wrote:

>>I set the php.ini to look for the extensions where
>>you installed PHP
>
> I copied all dlls from PHP diectory to
> WINDOWS/System32 directory and then it started
> running. But still I am not sure how PHP picks up the
> dll files. In my php.ini file I have set
> extension_dir = C:\PHP4\extensions\
> so from this directory all dlls should be picked up
> then why I need to copy again all dll files from php
> directiry to system32.
> Onething I am assuming that Apache interpreter picks
> up dll files from c:\windows\system32 directory and
> php interpreter picks from C:\PHP4\extensions
> directory. This is just my guess.
> Weird ... not sure what exactly happens?

Apache does not use the php modules!
There is no need to copy them to WINDOWS/System32
Apache is only complaining because PHP will not start.
Where have you actually got php.ini? the default is in c:\Windows

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