PHP thinks existing extension files don't exist.

[cheesecaker]

For some reason, when PHP starts, it doesn't want to load some extensions that I KNOW are there. Here's the startup log:

[Thu Nov 22 17:34:46 2007] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal -- Restarting the server.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:46 2007] [notice] Child 5176: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[22-Nov-2007 17:34:47] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_exif.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:47] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_fdf.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:47] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_interbase.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:47] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_mcrypt.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:47] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_mhash.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[Thu Nov 22 17:34:47 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8g PHP/5.2.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:47 2007] [notice] Server built: Sep 25 2007 20:19:40
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:47 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5496
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:47 2007] [notice] Child 5176: Released the start mutex
[22-Nov-2007 17:34:48] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_exif.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:48] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_fdf.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:48] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_interbase.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:48] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_mcrypt.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[22-Nov-2007 17:34:48] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Apache2\php5\ext\php_mhash.dll' - The specified module could not be found.

 in Unknown on line 0

[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5496: Child process is running
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5496: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5496: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5496: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5496: Starting thread to listen on port 8080.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5176: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:48 2007] [notice] Child 5176: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Nov 22 17:34:49 2007] [notice] Child 5176: Child process is exiting

And as you can see, all the extension files required are here:

[Atli]

Hi.

Could you show us the 'extension_path ' directive, and the module list from your php.ini?

You could also try using either double back-slashes in the path '\\' or a forward-slash '/'. Don't know if that really matters but who knows :)

[cheesecaker]

Actually, I figured it out, I had forgotten to put a my PHP directory in my PATH variable. PHP searches for certain DLL files found in the root PHP directory, which it can't find unless you've got it in the PATH variable.

[Atli]

Ahh. I always forget that to :)

Glad you got it all worked out.