PHP Apache 2.2 – Resolving Common Issues

When I do the same grep of my config files, I get one line you didn't:

/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf:3:          DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm

Make sure this line in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini is set this way:

; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under Apache.
engine = On

If you change it, restart Apache:

sudo apache2ctl restart

It seems that Apache resolves the path to it's long version before passing it to PHP encoded in UTF-8. PHP file functions use the ANSI API of Windows and is unable to deal with Unicode in filenames.

I remember facing a similar problem with Apache/PHP. One solution would be to create some sort of NTFS symbolic link to your folder using a name that solely avoids Unicode characters.

eg.: E:\sites => E:\gonzález\sites

NTFS symbolic link on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

You can get the mklink.exe utility from Microsoft to create such links from the command-line: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(WS.10).aspx

You could try the following command:

mklink /D E:\sites E:\gonzález\sites

Link Shell Extension is a free software that integrates with Windows shell to manage symbolic links on NTFS volumes (you'll find the link in the Wikipedia article above, or you can lookup for "Link Shell Extension" on any good search engine).