I just installed PHP 5 on a windows 2003 server running IIS 6 and found that none of my extentions were loading correctly. Upon further inspection of the phpinfo() command, I found the following:


Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File (none)


So PHP had decided not to use the php.ini file that was located in the working directory, but rather attempt to use one from C:\Windows, and because it could not find one there it was using the default setup. Initially I put a symlink from c:\windows\php.ini to the real php.ini file, but that did not appear to work either.

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