php.ini file creation in server

Question

Hi,

I am developing a php website.

I cant see php.ini file in my server. my host will not provide it.

So i'm now going to create a copy of that php.ini file.

so i have tried system()

i searched in google and i got this link. http://drupal.org/node/290592

Here they are using like this

system("cp /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini /home/YOURUSERNAME/php.ini");

in my server when i looked the phpinfo my php.ini location is

/ms/svc/php5/conf/php.ini

and when i looked for the current directory of my server using this

$dir_path = str_replace( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], "", dirname(realpath(FILE)) ) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

i got my current directory as

/netapp/whnas-swamp/s11/s11/01712/www.sample.com/webdocs/

so my system command will now look lke this

system("/ms/svc/php5/conf/php.ini /netapp/whnas-swamp/s11/s11/01712/www.sample.com/webdocs/php.ini");

i have named this page as getthephpini.php

and when i b rowse this page i got a blank page but no new php.ini file created in my server.

Is any mistake in that code??? Can any one show me the correct way

Please help me

Thanks

Answer 1

A properly configured PHP installation will not give you physical access to php.ini from your PHP code.

What you are trying to do is not possible.

Answer 2

What you are looking for is this command that lets you change the settings from within PHP code.

ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '64M');

Editing php.ini directly (even if you had access to it) would likely not have worked, because the web server would need to be restarted for the setting to take effect.