note 7702 deleted from Oracle 8 functions by ronabop

I've seen two major problems with PHP 4.0/Oracle 8i on Linux. 1. It's best to include the two following lines in your apache startup script. export ORACLE_HOME=<oracle home directory> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpthread.so The first entry will allow php to find the tnsnames.ora through the oracle client libraries. The second entry solves a problem of apache dumping on startup after enabling php4 as a DSO. 2. Make certain that the user you are running apache under is a member of your dba group. I tore my hair out for hours on these two. Thanks, David Wood