.htaccess Issues With Macports Apache Install

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 01:09, Steve Edwards wrote:

> In addition to that, extensions only work with separate .ini  
> files.  For instance, xdebug will only work if I have xdebug.ini  
> in /opt/local/var/db/php5.  If I have the xdebug settings in  
> php.ini, they are not recognized.  They are only recognized in the  
> xdebug.ini.  phpinfo shows a "Scan this dir for additional .ini  
> files " setting with a value of /opt/local/var/db/php5, which  
> apparently seems to mean that that directory has to be used.


I've been in the process of splitting the formerly monolithic php5  
port into separate ports for each module. Along with that I added the  
ability to load additional ini files from /opt/local/var/db/php5, and  
each module port installs its own ini into that directory. The user  
is not meant to modify this ini file (because the modifications would  
be lost if the port were upgraded); rather, this ini file only  
contains enough code to load the module (the "extension=something.so"  
line).

There are some modules, like xdebug, which have additional settings  
you're supposed to set in an ini, and I admit I had not played with  
that yet. I would have expected to be able to set them in the primary  
php.ini. And indeed it seems to work for me. For example, I install  
php5-xdebug and restart my Apache and look at my phpinfo.php and see  
that xdebug is now there and in its configuration variables it shows  
that xdebug.auto_trace is off. I then add this line to the end of my / 
opt/local/etc/php5/php.ini:

xdebug.auto_trace = On

and I restart my Apache again and I see that auto_trace is now on.