Re: compiling PHP with oracle

Paco Ortiz wrote:

Hi:

PHP as a DSO with Oracle support does work.

yes, that's how I believe it has to be...

You need to make sure that $ORACLE_HOME is in Apache's path

do you mean that when I compile and configure apache, $ORACLE_HOME is properly set?

No, when you build apache, $ORACLE_HOME doesn't need to be set. It does need to be set when you build PHP, and when you start Apache.

and that the libctlnsh.so.8.0 file is in your library path (I believe its usually found in $ORACLE_HOME/lib).

I think I met those conditions. That's why I got surprised when it didn't work. Apache died whenever I executed "apachectl start". I didn't want to find out at that moment what was happening. Only reconfigured and recompiled PHP as apache module and worked fine. Maybe I did something wrong on the way, who knows. Thanks for letting me know. Paco On Linux, you'd need to add $ORACLE_HOME/lib (the actual path) to your /etc/ld.so.conf file, and make sure $ORACLE_HOME is set before you start Apache..

For example, my /etc/ld.so.conf file looks something like this: /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/oracle/product/8.1.6/lib Apache should then start up fine. Paul