Warning: ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed.

Question

Right now I am getting the following error when I try to connect to any of my Oracle databases:
Warning: ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that ORACLE_HOME is set and points to the right directory in /var/apache2/htdocs/test2.php on line 17
I tried connecting to three separate databases with the same result, 10.2.0.2 [Windows Sever 2003], 9.2.0.7 [Solaris 10], 10.2.0.3 [Redhat].
On my app server [Sun V20z] which is a x86-64 Bit server has the following installed: Solaris 10, Oracle 10.2 Client [Admin option] and PHP 5.2 using Apache2 that installed with Solaris.
I done quite a bit of reading and can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong. So if anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
Below is how I setup Apache and PHP and how some of my setting are showing up.
# uname -a
SunOS sesapp 5.10 Generic_118855-36 i86pc i386 i86pc
Install libiconv.
# gunzip -c libiconv-1.9.2.tar | tar -xvf -
# cd libiconv-1.9.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install
Install libxml2.
# gunzip -c libxml2-2.6.26.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
# cd libxml2-2.6.26
# ./configure
# make
Copy the sample Apache2 configuration file.
# cp /etc/apache2/httpd.conf-example /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# make install
Install PHP 5.2
# gunzip -c cd php-5.2.0.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
# cd php-5.2.0
# ./configure with-apxs2=/usr/apache2/bin/apxs with-libxml-dir=/usr/local with-config-file-path=/etc/apache2 with-zlib with-oracle=/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client with-oci8=/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
# make
# make install
Setup the PHP configuration file.
# cp php.ini-dist /etc/apache2/php.ini
Add the following lines to the PHP /etc/apache2/httpd.conf configuration file.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Created file /usr/apache2/bin/oraenv [This is for environment paths when apache starts]
ORACLE_BASE=/apps/oracle
export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
export ORACLE_HOME
LD_LIBARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:$ORACLE_HOME
export LD_LIBARY_PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/apache2/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
TNS_ADMIN=/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/network/admin
export TNS_ADMIN
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
export NLS_LANG
I then modified /usr/apache2/bin/apachectl and in the "CONFIGURATION SECTION" added:
if [ -f /usr/apache2/bin/oraenv ] ;
then
. /usr/apache2/bin/oraenv
fi
Enable Apache2 using the Solaris Management Facility (SMF).
# svcadm enable apache2
When I do phpinfo() I get the following bits:
oci8
OCI8 Support enabled
Version 1.2.2
Revision $Revision: 1.269.2.16.2.25 $
Active Persistent Connections 0
Active Connections 0
Oracle Version 10.1
Compile-time ORACLE_HOME /apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
Libraries Used no value
Temporary Lob support enabled
Collections support enabled
Directive Local Value Master Value
oci8.default_prefetch 10 10
oci8.max_persistent -1 -1
oci8.old_oci_close_semantics 0 0
oci8.persistent_timeout -1 -1
oci8.ping_interval 60 60
oci8.privileged_connect Off Off
oci8.statement_cache_size 20 20
Environment
Variable Value
LANG C
LD_LIBARY_PATH /apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/apache2/lib:/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/lib:/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
NLS_LANG AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
ORACLE_BASE /apps/oracle
ORACLE_HOME /apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
PATH /usr/sbin:/usr/bin
SMF_FMRI svc:/network/http:apache2
SMF_METHOD /lib/svc/method/http-apache2 start
SMF_RESTARTER svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
TNS_ADMIN /apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/client/network/admin
TZ Canada/Mountain
If there is anything that you can think of that I should try or see something that I screwed up in my conf, please let me know as I am stumped.
Clayton

Answer 1

I can confirm that this is an Oracle Client permissions problem. I got frustrated and chmod -R 777 /apps/oracle and sure enough I could connect to all the databases. I know that this isn't a solution so I'll undo this and try and figure out which directories PHP is having a hard time accessing. If I am able to narrow it down I'll post it here. And if someone has done this already can you please post your finding's here.
Cheers,
Clayton