On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Mad Unix wrote: > > Am running Oracle10g on the server, I do OCI connection from php/apache to > > my DB 10g > > so how would you insert the values to apache... > > To quote John (reading helps!): > > | you would put those variable assignments in the front of /etc/init.d/httpd > > Though I still don't understand why that would be needed. I've run into this... the OCI component needs some information about where Oracle is... my advise would be to *NOT* modify the /etc/init.d/httpd script. Better to put the declarations into /etc/sysconfig/httpd. That's what the file is there for, and if you upgrade the Apache RPM, you don't have to worry about your startup script mods... -I