Oracle8i connecting to database problem

Hi, I've configured php as follows, './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/megsoc3/' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-sablot' '--with-zlib' '--with-oracle' '--with-oci8' '--enable-sigchild' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-sockets' and it makes and installs fine. Then I start httpd ok but it won't create a connection to the database. Is this because I'm using apxs? Do I have to do it statically. Can't see anything about it being a problem but I can't think of anything else. Any ideas? (I can create a connection to the database using sqlplus and the variables I've set in php for the password and name etc. so I'm pretty sure my client and server installations are ok). Thanks, Simon.