I'm relatively new to PHP and have run into a problem that has stumped me
so I am hoping someone with more experience can help me out.
I am attempting to run PHP v 5.2.2 on a Solaris 10 machine running Apache
v2.2.4. I have compiled PHP as a CLI instead of an Apache module because
I need our students to be able to run scripts under their own user id's
(suexec). PHP is compiled using the following configure parameters:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-openssl \
--with-oci8=instantclient,/usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2 \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--enable-fastcgi --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot --with-iconv \
--with-ldap --enable-force-cgi-redirect
This command was executed after installing the Oracle instantclient,
OpenLDAP and MySQL. Configure completes successfully as do both make and
make install. I am now able to run PHP scripts successfully that connect
to our LDAP server and MySQL server. The problem I am encountering occurs
when I attempt to connect to an Oracle instance. Any script I attempt to
run generates this error message:
PHP Warning: oci_connect() [<a
href='function.oci-connect'>function.oci-connect</a>]: OCIEnvNlsCreate()
failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that
LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client
libraries in /home/bu/jsantana/htdocs/OracleTest.php on line 10
My shell has LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined as:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/sfw/libexec:/usr/local/apache2/lib
Which includes the path to the Oracle instantclient. I have also edited
Apache's envvars in $APACHE_HOME/bin so it includes the path to the Oracle
client in it's LD_LIBRARY_PATH definition. Neither change fixed the
error. My phpinfo(); shows that OCI8 support is enabled but I did notice
that the path variable is returned as /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin. Since
this did not include the path to the Oracle client, I modified my test
script to include the following code.
putenv('LD_LIBRARY_PATH=');
putenv('LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2');
$val = getenv('LD_LIBRARY_PATH');
echo "Value: " . $val;
When I run the script now, I see that my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to the
path that includes my Oracle instantclient files but I am still getting
the error message I mentioned above. This error occurs whether or not I
am running in safe_mode.
So now I am stumped. Can anyone give me a hint as to what I am doing
wrong here? How can I get PHP v5 running as a CLI and get it to recognize
the Oracle instantclient files installed on my system?
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide,
Jesse
Jesse Santana
Project Lead - Enterprise Services Group
Information Technology Services
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Office: (562)985-8511
Fax: (562)985-8855
