HOWTO install Oracle OCI8 on RHEL / CentOS / Fedora
How to install OCI8 (PHP extension to access Oracle Databases) on a RHEL / Fedora Linux system.
Download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html :
EDIT 2013/09/24 : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html •RPM Instant Client Package – SDK: Additional header files and an example makefile for developing Oracle applications with Instant Client •RPM Instant Client Package – Basic: All files required to run OCI, OCCI, and JDBC-OCI applications
Install both RPM packages :
rpm -ivh instantclient-basic-linux.XXX.rpm
rpm -ivh instantclient-sdk-linux.XXX.rpm
Install some prerequisite
yum install php-pear
yum install php-devel
Download the OCI8 extension
pear download pecl/oci8
tar xvzf oci8-1.4.7.tgz
cd oci8-1.4.7/
phpize
Configure the extension with your Oracle client library path (change the path …/11.2/… with your own version) :
./configure –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib/
Compil and install
make
make install
Configure SELinux : allows httpd to execute programs that require memory addresses that are both executable and writeable
setsebool -P httpd_execmem 1
Add the folowing configuration at the end of php.ini
vi /etc/php.ini
[OCI8]
extension=oci8.so
Restart Apache
service httpd restart
That’s all folks.