Error loading oci8.so with Ubuntu server 17.04 php 7 and apache2

Question

I have gone through the whole process of downloading Oracle instant client, SDK, etc. in a Ubuntu Server 17.04. Then converted rpm packages to deb with alien, installed, set

Answer 1

As you still will have the same problem with php cli with the above solution, it would be better to add a new file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf with this content:

/usr/lib/oracle/12.2/client64/lib

Then run

sudo ldconfig

This way it works for apache and php cli and you do not need to change /etc/apache2/envvars