Linux Windows System Administrator Help

First download the  oracle instant client basic and devel files from oracle website : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxsoft-082809.html

oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm and
oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm

from the oracle website and install them:

# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm
# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.i386.rpm

Installing OCI8 from PECL

The OCI8 extension can be added to an existing PHP installation either automatically or manually from » http://pecl.php.net/. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8.

For an automated install follow these steps:

If you are behind a firewall, set PEAR’s proxy, for example:

• pear config-set http_proxy http://my-proxy.example.com:80/

• Run

  pecl install oci8

  When prompted, enter either the value of $ORACLE_HOME, or instantclient,/path/to/instant/client/lib.

  Note: Do not enter the variable $ORACLE_HOME because it will not be expanded. Instead, enter the actual path of the Oracle home directory.

For a manual install, download the PECL OCI8 package, e.g. oci8-1.3.5.tgz.

• Extract the package:

  tar -zxf oci8-1.3.5.tgz
  cd oci8-1.3.5

• Prepare the package:

  phpize

• Configure the package, either using $ORACLE_HOMEor Instant Client

  ./configure -with-oci8=shared,$ORACLE_HOME

  or

  ./configure –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/

• if you get this error: checking Oracle Instant Client SDK header directory… configure: error: Oracle Instant Client SDK header files not found it means your oracle devel package didnt install correctly.

  then run

• Install the package:

  make install

After either an automatic or manual install, edit your php.ini file and add the line:

extension=oci8.so

If you are having issues using oci_pconnect (causing apache segmentation faults) then you will need to use –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib and install the 1.3.0 version of the OCI client from http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8

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