Confused about php.ini file

  • I have wp1.5 on a Windows 2003 installation. No Apache.
    It was running all right for a few days. Then the permalinks started not working.

    I followed the codex suggestion to put two lines in the php.ini file. Since there did not appear to be a php.ini file on my site, I created one and put it in the root directory of my installation, which is also the root directory of my site.

    Nothing happened.

    Is there something one has to do to alert the wp system that a php.ini file exists. The documentation doesn’t really explain very much, especially to someone who is not a technical expert.

    my permalink path is presently:
    /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    it used to be
    /index.php/archives/%postname%/

    neither works. I have also used slugs with some of my posts to see if that would help.

    Nothing.

    Can anyone help me?

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  • I have this problem too ??

    You need apache and php for permalinks. You cannot use pretty permalinks without them.

    Using index.php in a ‘pretty permalink’ is a hack that will break, that is what you’re experiencing.

    By the way, your PHP.ini file is something that basically runs PHP on your server. If your site’s host is your own server, then you have to go into your PHP files and edit it there. PHP is NOT located on your site, nor in the root directory of your hosting space. If you’re running PHP on your own machine (localhost), then it’s located (usually) in your C:/ directory. If it’s running from your webhost (and you are not running your own server) then you won’t have access to php.ini. Th eonly connection between WordPress and php.ini is that WordPress needs PHP to run, and PHP needs the php.ini file to work. Otherwise, there’s nothing you can do in WordPress that will affect the file, unless you actually have physical access to it.

    And what Sam said – no Apache? *and* on a Windows server? Igh.

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