basic error:
at the beginning of the file there are three characters with hexadecimal codes ef bb bf .
the second error found:
syntactic - in 411 lines. Here are the lines from 409 to 411:
mysql.default_socket= ; Хост по умолчанию для mysql_connect() (не работает в безопасном режиме).
as you can see, the 411th line is not commented out. need to put ; at its beginning.
third (estimated) error:
the file has dos -endings of lines and, perhaps, a mixture of different endings of lines, with which, theoretically, there may be problems.
I deleted these first three characters and laid out an archive with two versions of the file: with dos -endings of lines and with unix- endings. the second is for the case if php does not understand dos non-native dos endings for it.
The first and third errors can be corrected by two commands of the form (in the gnu / linux operating system):
$ dos2unix файл $ unix2dos файл
“unreadable” characters will be removed from the file (inserted by some editors at the beginning of the file), and line endings (if they are mixed inside one file by some editors) will be “reduced to the same denominator”.