PHP Windows extensions won´t load

Question

I\'m working on a windows server 2008 R2 machine. I have installed apache 2.2 with php 5.4.25 While trying to enable ldap support for the apache server i found out that the

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Windows. After changing the path to the extension directory (in php.ini) to an absolute path, it worked.

As suggested in the default php.ini (not working):

extension_dir = "ext"

Turned into an absolute path (working)

extension_dir = "c:\amp\php\ext"

The strange thing is that this problem occurs on some machines / versions only. Could not nail it down. There is an official bug listed here:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74866