Feb

20

Troubleshooting: LD_LIBRARY_PATH… Warning: ocilogon() http://function.ocilogon: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed.

≡ Category: Oracle on Unix Server | ≅ 4 Comments

If you are connecting an Oracle Database using an Apache2 webserver that runs on an Ubuntu machine, you might randomly have this error.

Warning: ocilogon() http://function.ocilogon: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system – please check that LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries.

It can be solved setting properly the environment variable [...]

Jul

12

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

≡ Category: Oracle on Unix Server | ≅ 10 Comments

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Connecting an Oracle Database via PHP, requires a not easy procedure. The bash scripts OracleViaPHP.sh and TNSconnect.sh will automate the set up process for you.
The scripts are tested on a virtual machine running OS Linux Ubuntu Server 8.04.1 i386 created on a Mac OS X running Leopard 10.5.3. OracleViaPHP.sh will install and configure Apache2, PHP5, the [...]