Have a working Oracle installation (8.0.5) Have all my ORACLE_HOME/SID/BASE and so on corectly set up. Configures apache Configures php with --with-apache --with oracle . .. . . .. Works just good. Oracle are found and right version are found in the Configure output. make and make install php and then make and make install apache. compiles just fine. Doing a phpinfo(); showes OCI8 and NOTHING under ORACLE_HOME and libes used. SAme with the Oracle part. User envirement (phpinfo();) I can read ORACLE_HOME/SID set to right values STILL IT DONT WORK ! when i do get error reriving ora errors for and then different ORA-12545 and such gahhhh ! anyone able to help ? // LEIF -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]