How to change the path to php.ini in PHP CLI version

Question

The php that run on the webserver and the CLI version is not using the same php.ini file. If I do a command php --ini, it show this

Answer 1

I have spent about 3 hours trying to do exactly what your question asks. Couldn't do it. I gave up and copied that php.ini to C:\Windows and changed my ENV variable "PHPRC" to C:\Windows (and in httpd.conf). That way both my CLI php and Apach php e are using the same file. I could not get "php -m" to display the modules I had loaded in my php.ini for the life of me until I made this change...