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php-db | 2001011

Re: [PHP-DB] Connecting to a Remote Oracle Database From: Luis Castro Mendoza (lcastro <email protected>)
Date: 01/05/01

Richard Crawford wrote:

> Does anyone have any thoughts on how to connect to an Oracle database which
> resides on a remote server? The connection script looks something like this
> already:
>
> putenv("ORACLE_SID=[db]");
> putenv("ORACLE_HOME=[location of tns file]");
> $db = ocilogon("[user]","[password]");
>
> Is there a param I can put in somewhere to designate server ID?
>
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The first is install Oracle client software in the box where web-server resides.

Add in apachectl
ORACLE_HOME=path_to_oracle_home
export ORACLE_HOME

You must sure that you connect descriptor (thirth parameter in ocilogon) is in
TNSNAMES.ORA in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

Hope this helps

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Luis Castro Mendoza
Universidad de Chile
Vicerrectoría de Economía y Administración
Servicios Tecnológicos de Gestión
mailto:lcastro <email protected>
Phone: 56-2-6782662
Fax: 56-2-6782670