[olug] integrate Oracle with LAMP using RPMs

[Jay Swackhamer]

I would say that you would need to

1. get the source RPM for php.
2. pull the spec file out of it
3. rebuild the RPM with your modified spec file.


> I'm building a new LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server
> on RedHat AS 3 that will need to query an Oracle database. I've done
> this in the past but always by installing the Oracle client libs and
> installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL from source. This time I'd like to
> build the whole thing using RPMs for ease of administration. Is there
> any way to go about this?
> Currently, the install is fresh and unmodified and all packages are from
> distribution discs (no source packages).
> The "phpinfo()" page is showing configure options that include:
> '--with-mysql=shared,/usr'
> '--without-oci8'
> '--enable-dbx'
>
> Under the DBX section of phpinfo() the list of supported databases
> include Oracle 8 (oci8), but when I try an Oracle query from a php
> script I get the standard "Call to undefined function: ocilogon()"
> error.
>
> Any help / suggestions would be great.
>
> -- Ryan
>
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