Error with PHP (can't resolve the connect identifier)

Question

Hello everybody,
I have an issue that I hope you can help me with.
I installed on an OpenSuse the following applications using the guides I found on this web site:
- Apache 2 HTTP Server
- PHP 5.2.9
- Instantclient 11.1
- Oracle 11g
After hours of hard work and web navigation looking for information about the problems I got, I'm stucked and I don't find a way to continue.
When PHP tries to connect to the Database, I get this message:
Warning: oci_connect() [function.oci-connect]: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified in [...]
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specifiedtnsping from a terminal resolves the name successfully, as you can see:
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.4.201)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = Blog.coremain.com)))
OK (0 msec)The problem comes when PHP tries to connect, that's where Oracle doesn't resolve the SID.
Environment variables ($ORACLE_HOME, $ORACLE_SID, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH) are set as guides say.
By the way, maybe it's related: I can't either connect with JDeveloper to this database in other PC from the network. The data is correct (user, password, IP, port, SID/Service Name).
This happens with a Linux O.S. Installing the same stuff on a Windows, PHP and JDeveloper work fine.
Can you help me, please? I read all the info on the Internet I could get and can't find the solution.
Tell me if you need me to show you any log or configuration file.
Regards

Answer 1

Hi there,
I agree, I think it's an environment issue, but I don't know how to set it up. Here is the environment section of phpinfo():
Apache Environment
Variable     Value
HTTP_HOST      127.0.0.1
HTTP_USER_AGENT      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032600 SUSE/3.0.8-1.1.1 Firefox/3.0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT      text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE      es-es,es;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING      gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET      ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE      300
HTTP_CONNECTION      keep-alive
HTTP_REFERER      http://127.0.0.1/
PATH      /usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin
SERVER_SIGNATURE      no value
SERVER_SOFTWARE      Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) PHP/5.2.9
SERVER_NAME      127.0.0.1
SERVER_ADDR      127.0.0.1
SERVER_PORT      80
REMOTE_ADDR      127.0.0.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT      /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
SERVER_ADMIN      [email protected]
SCRIPT_FILENAME      /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/index.php
REMOTE_PORT      61677
GATEWAY_INTERFACE      CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL      HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD      GET
QUERY_STRING      no value
REQUEST_URI      /index.php
SCRIPT_NAME      /index.php By the way, I can tnsping only with oracle and root user, with sergio.solis user can't do it: "TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name".
Thanks for your answer.
Regards.