oci_connect connection failed

Question

I am having serious problem connecting to external ORA DB 11g from local Zend server CE. OCI8 is enabled and running version 1.4.6 (due to phpinfo()).

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Answer 1

My solution on fedora 17:

1. yum install httpd httpd-devel.
2. yum install php php-mysql php-pear php-devel
3. Install oracle instantclient:

rpm -Uvh oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm 
rpm -Uvh oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm 

4. pecl install oci8

This gives:

**
downloading oci8-1.4.7.tgz ...
Starting to download oci8-1.4.7.tgz (Unknown size)
.....done: 168,584 bytes
10 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20100412
Zend Module Api No:      20100525
Zend Extension Api No:   220100525
Please provide the path to the ORACLE_HOME directory.
Use 'instantclient,/path/to/instant/client/lib' if you're compiling
with Oracle Instant Client [autodetect] :' 
** 

Just press enter.

5. Enable the OCI8 extension by creating a file, oci8.ini for example, with the following line at /etc/php.d/:

extension=oci8.so

6. service httpd restart