Covalent FastStart Server and Oracle

briedes

I have the Covalent FastStart Server Installed on AIX. This incluse Apache and PHP. Now I want to use PHP to connect to Oracle. I think this requires a recompile of PHP with the --with-oracle option. The problem is that Covalent doesn't ship the PHP source code. Can I download the PHP source, compile it with oracle and overlay the covalent version of PHP?

tsinka

Hi,

if you create a script like info.php:

<?PHP
phpinfo();
?>

and call it you'll see how php was compiled on top of the info page (the configure options). If there's something like --with-apxs it could work to recompile php. Download the sources from www.php.net and compile it with all the options shown on the info page and additionally with --with-oracle and/or --with-oci8. You must install at least the oracle client on the server and set up the environment variables correctly.

I don't know if this works but it could work. Make a backup of the libphp4.so if php has been compiled as a loadable module.

If the info page shows that php has been compiled with --with-apache you would also have to recompile apache.

In order to successfully compile php you might need to install some gnu tools like make, gcc ....

Regards,
Thomas

briedes

I am using PHP with Apache, but I don't see --with-apache in the configuration statement for php. Do you think I need to add -with-apache to my configuration statement and recompile apache if it's not in there already.

Recompiling php will create a new version of libphp4.so. Is that the only file that is needed for php after the recompil?

Thanks for your help!!!
Steve

tsinka

Hi,

you can also look at the httpd.conf how php is include. If there is a directive like LoadModule libphp4.so then it is used as DSO, if there is a directive using php with an Action in the Directory section of your httpd.conf then it is used as cgi. Is there a --with-apxs in the php output. Only one of the --with-apxs or --with-apache will appear at a time.