PHP Windows extensions won´t load

Question

I'm working on a windows server 2008 R2 machine. I have installed apache 2.2 with php 5.4.25 While trying to enable ldap support for the apache server i found out that the server does not load the extensions.

I ran php_info() and this was the result

Configuration File (php.ini) Path

C:\Windows Loaded configuration file: "C:\php\php.ini

extension_dir C:\php\ext

I have changed the php.ini to load the extensions, but they are not loaded and they are not visible in the php_info dump. I tried to restart the server and apache about a million times while doing changes with no luck. So if anyone knows a solution to this it would be great.

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Windows. After changing the path to the extension directory (in php.ini) to an absolute path, it worked.

As suggested in the default php.ini (not working):

extension_dir = "ext"

Turned into an absolute path (working)

extension_dir = "c:\amp\php\ext"

The strange thing is that this problem occurs on some machines / versions only. Could not nail it down. There is an official bug listed here:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74866