Comments on: HOW-TO: Install PHP5, Oracle Client v10.2 and OCI8 on Ubuntu Server Linux

By: Danilo Vizzarro

Danilo Vizzarro — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:30:50 +0000

It seems the problem of the execute rights on apache2 pops up on Ubuntu version 9. I updated the installation script so it should be solved now ;)

By: Kristjan

Kristjan — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:56:14 +0000

Hi,
thank you for script, basically it works for ubuntu 9.04, too. The only problem was somehow it removed /etc/init.d/apache2 execution rights so I initially thought the file got lost. Actually I just had to set rights back again.

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:42:58 +0000

Hi,

is it possible to connect Oracle XE using your tutorial above ? thanks.

By: Danilo Vizzarro

Danilo Vizzarro — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:54:11 +0000

Hi adam,
I didn’t have that problem but I will take a look!
Thank you

By: asgeo1

asgeo1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:05:52 +0000

Hi there,

This is great. Thanks so much for putting this script together. It is much appreciated.

I have had one problem. After the script creates the new apache2 file in init.d, that file needs to be set to executable or the service can’t be restarted:

chmod +x apache2

Perhaps add that to your script.

Regards,
-adam

By: Danilo Vizzarro

Danilo Vizzarro — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:23:13 +0000

Hi Lufti,
sorry but with the Oracle Client 10.2 of the client is not possible to connect an Oracle DB 8.1…

By: Lutfi

Lutfi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:24:06 +0000

Hi. I just try this. But I am use Oracle-8.1 server.

Warning: ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: ORA-03134: Connections to this server version are no longer supported. in /var/www/test.php on line 2
Could not connect the Oracle database!

Any solution?

By: Danilo Vizzarro

Danilo Vizzarro — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:59:32 +0000

Anyway it’s good to specify that it’s not compulsory to create a new oracle user ;P

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:42:07 +0000

I had to do just one additional process to get it to work (after having tried the troubleshooting steps):

* create user named “oracle”
* create group named “oinstall”
* chown -R oracle:oinstall /opt/oracle
* edit /etc/group, add user “www-data” to the oinstall group

Oh, and I also had to chmod 755 /etc/init.d/apache2, as the ./OracleViaPHP.sh script left the apache2 file as 644.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:41:20 +0000

Grazie!
Finalmente sono riuscito a farmi un ambiente locale per sviluppare PHP/Oracle su Ubuntu Gutsy: se non c’eri tu…

Uniche 3 cose che ho fatto oltre a lanciare gli script:

1) Ho scaricato da Oracle la BASIC anziché la BASICLITE poiché la basiclite non supportava il charset con cui erano impostati i server a cui dovevo accedere;

2) non avevo phpize:
# apt-get install php5-dev;

3) ho riavviato a mano apache, fallendo lo script in quel punto:
# apache2ctl restart

ciao e grazie ancora!
Marco