#23474 [Com]: OCI8 loads when apache started from cmd, not when apache started as service

ID: 23474 Comment by: asgawth at blueyonder dot co dot uk Reported By: deepblah at yahoo dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: OCI8 related Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: I have exactly the same problem but with IIS 5. What I can add is that the same occurs with most of the other extensions. Some do load tho. To name a few php_bz2,php_cpdf,php_exif. Andrew Gawthrope Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-05 16:42:47] sniper@php.net If it works -> bogus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-04 18:17:58] deepblah at yahoo dot com An update. The service works now, although I haven't changed anything. I am leaving this bug open, so the developer(s) can look into it regardless, if they wish to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-05-03 22:28:28] deepblah at yahoo dot com Okay, this one starts out as most of the other OCI8-related bogus bugs. But in my opinion, this seems to be a 'real' bug. Here goes: I have Apache 1.3.27, Oracle 8i EE and PHP 4.3.1 installed on a Windows 2000 system. PHP and Apache worked fine, until I decided to go enable the OCI8 extension. Even after making sure of the following: 1) extension_dir = "C:\php\extensions" 2) oci.dll in %PATH% apache would complain: PHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\php\extensions\php_oci8.dll' - The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0 Apache ran (w/o loading OCI8) however. Following the advice in one of the other posts, I enabled php_exif.dll and that loaded fine. Eventually, I started apache from commandline, w/o any options and it started fine, and loaded OCI8. (phpinfo() confirmed that.) But again, when I tried to start apache with the default options, [apache -w -n "Apache" -k start] which essencially starts the service, it popped up the same error. phpinfo() confirmed that OCI8 wasn't loaded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23474&edit=1