I downloaded the last version of php (currently php 7.2.8) for a Window 10 desktop, more specifically the VC15 x64 Thread Safe.
After defining a shortcut as :
C:\Users\c2ll0fd00m\Downloads\php-7.2.8-Win32-VC15-x64\php.exe -c php.ini -S 0.0.0.0:8000
I was able to run perfectly PHP on a small index.php file (in fact just performing a simple phpinfo() call.
But after editing the php.ini file and set the value of doc_root to another folder like c:\php\root, when I launch the php.exe, the command line still displays the old document root value instead of the new one.
More strange, when I let the index.php in the php.exe folder, then the phpinfo() shows that the doc_root is correctly set with the new value c:\php\root.
The consequence if that with the index.php file in the c:\php\root folder then the url http://localhost:8000/ is not reachable anymore.
So to summarize this, PHP seems to not take into account the value of doc_root.
What should I do?
PS: I already apologize for my english, I am not a native english speaker.
doc_root is not used by the PHP web server
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
Use the -t flag to specify a specific directory, or just launch the PHP web server from the directory you wish to use.
php -S localhost:8000 -t foo/