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I'm running PHP as FastCGI (I needed multiple versions of PHP).

.htaccess

AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php
Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/php-5.2.17.fcgi

cgi-bin/php-5.2.17.fcgi

#!/bin/sh
PHP_CGI=/usr/local/php/5.2.17/bin/php-cgi
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
exec $PHP_CGI -c /home/john/www/crm/php.ini

The main issue is that PHP is ignoring -c option. My php.ini files is NOT loaded.

Can anybody share any suggestions?

My first thought is permissions -- Apache typically runs as a limited user, often www-user or apache, depending on your flavor of Linux and how you installed Apache.

This means that with the default permissions on pretty much all Linuxes (Linii?), the Apache user (which will also be the same user running php-cgi) cannot read any file inside your home directory.

I would move the php.ini file to another location (e.g. /usr/local/php/crm/php.ini), which I suspect will solve your problem here. Another option is to simply spawn the php-cgi process using an entirely separate script, optionally running under its own user account, and have Apache talk to that.

i'm new to that Topic, so please dont kill me if i'm Wrong but shouldnt you use something like this:

 <Directory "/path/to/doc/root">
 Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
 FCGIWrapper /path/to/cgi-bin/php-5.2.17.fcgi .php
 Order allow,deny
 allow from all
 </Directory>

Try using the -d Switch and check in phpinfo if you can change things this way.
If it works your probably on the right track (and i am wrong :) )