PHP Warning: PHP Startup: ????????: Unable to initialize module

Question

After upgrading php from 5.1 to 5.2.10, I got the following warnings when php -v:

    # php -v
    PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: fileinfo: Unable t         


        

Answer 1

This happened to me when I tried to install a newer version of PHP. After finding that I also would need to reconfigure Apache for that I switched back to the old PHP version. Here the solution which worked for me:

change the httpd.conf to the correct versions:

 PHPIniDir ...
 LoadModule php5_module ...

Changed the

PATH - Environment Variable

When that does not take any effect

rename or delete the new PHP(-Version)-Folder

For some reason the last step did the trick for me. Even after a restart it did not have an effect before doing this.