OCI8 Problems
Posted: 17. October 2019 18:06
Hi all,
I've been banging my head for over a week trying to get OCI8 to activate on my Linux system. It was so nice & easy with the PHP 5.x series - just run sudo /opt/lampp/lampp oci8, point to the library, and it was done! However, since installing XAMPP 7.3.9, I simply haven't been able to get it working.
I am running Linux Mint 19.2 XFCE edition, and I've tried to get OCI working on XAMPP 7.1.1, 7.3.9, and 7.3.10. I've even completely reformatted & installed fresh to make sure that it isn't something in my particular configuration that's blocking the installation. It just doesn't work as configured in the installer package. It says that it "likely succeeded"... but it fails to load or show in phpinfo, and attempts to run a script using OCI fail when executing unknown command ociconnect.
I've searched online, and have found several guides to install OCI8 manually, but they all relate to a different pre-configured LAMP stack or a CLI-only interface. Nothing to help me troubleshoot or install OCI8 manually into XAMPP.
Can anyone here help provide some directions how I can activate/connect to the OCI8 service in XAMPP? This would be connecting to an external Oracle server. Appreciate any help you can provide - - thanks!
I've been banging my head for over a week trying to get OCI8 to activate on my Linux system. It was so nice & easy with the PHP 5.x series - just run sudo /opt/lampp/lampp oci8, point to the library, and it was done! However, since installing XAMPP 7.3.9, I simply haven't been able to get it working.
I am running Linux Mint 19.2 XFCE edition, and I've tried to get OCI working on XAMPP 7.1.1, 7.3.9, and 7.3.10. I've even completely reformatted & installed fresh to make sure that it isn't something in my particular configuration that's blocking the installation. It just doesn't work as configured in the installer package. It says that it "likely succeeded"... but it fails to load or show in phpinfo, and attempts to run a script using OCI fail when executing unknown command ociconnect.
I've searched online, and have found several guides to install OCI8 manually, but they all relate to a different pre-configured LAMP stack or a CLI-only interface. Nothing to help me troubleshoot or install OCI8 manually into XAMPP.
Can anyone here help provide some directions how I can activate/connect to the OCI8 service in XAMPP? This would be connecting to an external Oracle server. Appreciate any help you can provide - - thanks!