ver 5.4xxx .ini problem

[Jim Giner]

My host has upgraded my site to a new server and a new php version -
5.4.27. Since then I am seeing a subtle change in that my individual
php.ini files in each of my folders do not seem to be involved anymore.
Previously I had the default timezone setting in those .ini files to
effect the change to the proper zone. Now when I do a phpinfo I see
that the time zone is now set to UTC, not good when I am in New York.

Now I may not understand how the .ini file gets read and applied but I
thought I had to replicate my settings in a small .ini file in each of
my folders where my php code ran from. Those files are still there of
course but they seem to be worthless. Is this a result of the new version?

[Jim Giner]

Post by Jim Giner
My host has upgraded my site to a new server and a new php version -
5.4.27. Since then I am seeing a subtle change in that my individual
php.ini files in each of my folders do not seem to be involved anymore.
Previously I had the default timezone setting in those .ini files to
effect the change to the proper zone. Now when I do a phpinfo I see
that the time zone is now set to UTC, not good when I am in New York.
Now I may not understand how the .ini file gets read and applied but I
thought I had to replicate my settings in a small .ini file in each of
my folders where my php code ran from. Those files are still there of
course but they seem to be worthless. Is this a result of the new version?

Problem solved.

My hoster had migrated me and in doing so had place me on a shared
server that did not allow for separate .ini files - all users had to use
the same ini file (why?).

Since then they have migrated my site to a new box using "suphp" (?) and
I have my settings from my ini files back.