APC refuses to work on php 5.1.4

[amcd]

i changed the command in external app configuration and apc is now working as confirmed by apc.php

but my phpinfo doesnt load anymore

[xing]

Now that we have isolated the problem.

The php binary is compiled to read php.ini from "../conf". Which means is that if lsphp is located in /lsws/fcgi-bin/lsphp then the correct php.ini it reads must be in /lsws/conf/php.ini. In addition, you should not use any relative paths in php.ini.

[amcd]

what you are saying is right, but somehow it is not happening

if i add "-c /fullpath/php.ini" to the command in external app config then apc runs, my site runs, but phpinfo doesnt work

if i remove that path then apc doesnt work

[amcd]

ok, i solved the phpinfo problem

the php5 ini had short open tag off by default - i switched that on and phpinfo works

but why should i have to explicitly specify the ini location with a -c switch? that is still a mystery to me

[amcd]

my forums were showing multiple errors with that php.ini

i created a new php.ini in the fcgi-bin directory with only 1 line
extension=apc.so

i figured that if my site runs fine, but only with high load without the ini file, why should i load a huge ini file and complicate things?

now lsphp loads the ini without any '-c' switch (as it looks in current directory first) and everything looks good for the time being