Weird php.ini settings can almost always still go in the directory with the php files, so just copying the directory automagically makes everything work right.

Weird php.ini settings can almost always still go in the directory with the php files, so just copying the directory automagically makes everything work right. Some settings don't work this way, of course, but I'm not sure which those would be, offhand. If you're using Python, for example, you're probably also using some framework... for years I used Webware for Python, and more recently web.py. Both require careful attention to get working in a convenient fashion, in my opinion.