Re: tnsnames.ora + Apache & symbolic links
| From: | Bob | Date: | Sun, 07 Apr 2002 00:53:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: tnsnames.ora + Apache & symbolic links | ||
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It is. You can override it in the conf file however.
Later,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Clever" <fclever@verinform.com>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: [PHP-DB] tnsnames.ora + Apache & symbolic links
> I recently posted a question regarding connecting to a TNS service from
PHP.
>
> I had been getting the error TNS operation timed out from PHP while
> connecting via sqlplus worked perfectly fine.
> If I was not using a TNS alias from PHP but a real connect string such as
>
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DAT
> A=(SID=qa))) it worked perfectly fine as well.
>
> I had a symbolic link pointing from $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin to
> tnsnames.ora file (cvs checked out version). After replacing the symbolic
> link with a hard link it worked fine.
>
> Is it that Apache does not follow the symbolic links outside of its home
for
> security reasons?
>
> Florian
>
> http://fc.clever-soft.com
> http://www.clever-software-solutions.de
>
>
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