Connection Error in Browser, Not in Terminal

Question

Hi all.
Using PHP 5 to connect to an oracle XE 10G database using the OCI-8 module. I'm using the following code to connect (login credentials have been changed):
<code>
$conn = oci_connect("user", "pass", "DB"); \\ if (!$conn) {
bq. print("Failed");
bq. $e = oci_error();
bq. print htmlentities($e);
bq. exit;
} else {
bq. print ("Successful");
</code>
When running the script in the terminal, I receive the successful message. However, when opening the page in a browser, I receive the failed to connect message. That I don't get the call to undefined function error, and that it works in the terminal, leads me to believe that the OCI-8 module is correctly installed. Is there anything else I should have to configure that would cause this script to connect in the terminal, but not in a browser? Thank you for any suggestions.
Edited by: user10227247 on Sep 12, 2008 6:08 PM

Answer 1

PHP packages from Fedora repositories usually do not contain OCI8 module. Your problem usually happens on the PHP installations that do not have OCI8 enabled. On the other hand, you are able to successfully connect to the database from the shell. That means that the PHP in your web server is not pointing to the same installation as the PHP executable in your path. The first thing to do is to check the httpd.conf, like this:
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$ egrep -i 'loadmodule .*php' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.so
# LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$
I had the same problem and had to comment out the delivered libphp5.so. That module did not have
OCI8 enabled. Where did your libphp5 go? I am using CentOS 5.2:
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$ uname -a
Linux dibidus 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 12:19:36 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[mgogala@dibidus conf]$
That should be similar enough to Fedora 6 and 7. You should also create a "phpinfo" web page on
/var/www/html and look for the exact versions and directories. Phpinfo page should look like this:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
That should give you all the information you need. Pay special attention to the directories and versions.