-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, Well, I've solved my problem with Thies's help It turned out to be a permissions problem: It was a (@#$%^) permissions problem on the root oracle directory. I have oracle installed in /home/oracle/OraHome1, and the permissions on /home/oracle was 700. Once I changed it to 755, everything worked. Original message is below for your reference: I'm trying to get PHP with the OCI interface to oracle working on a system. I have it working on one system, but when I set it up exactly the same on a different system, it fails. The oracle client is installed, and I have the perl DBI module working properly on both systems. This is on a RedHat 6.2 system with Oracle 8.1.6.1 and Apache 1.3.12 installed The php module I'm executing is: <?php $conn = OCILogon("dldb", "dldb123","devdb1"); $s="select count(*) from survey"; $stmt=OCIParse($conn,$s); OCIExecute($stmt); OCIFetchInto($stmt,&$line); OCIFreeStatement($stmt); print "count of survey is $line[0]"; ?> Amd I'm getting the following errors via the web browser: Warning: _oci_open_server: Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-12154 in /home/httpd/html/test_db.php on line 2 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid OCI8-Connection resource in /home/httpd/html/test_db.php on line 4 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid OCI8-Statement resource in /home/httpd/html/test_db.php on line 5 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid OCI8-Statement resource in /home/httpd/html/test_db.php on line 6 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid OCI8-Statement resource in /home/httpd/html/test_db.php on line 7 co there is nothing in the log files to indicate what is wrong. Any idea what is going on? The only difference between these two systems is their location, one is external to the network, the other is internal. Thanks in advance. JBB - -- ICQ # 44910403 Power Listviewer URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~PowerListviewer PMMail Archiver URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~Jonathan_Bayer/archiver For PGP Public key block/Fingerprint send the following message to me as the Subject: Send PGP Signature - -- ICQ # 44910403 Power Listviewer URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~PowerListviewer PMMail Archiver URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~Jonathan_Bayer/archiver For PGP Public key block/Fingerprint send the following message to me as the Subject: Send PGP Signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQCVAwUBOjY3ko1F3x2FJJilAQE2/AP/SczLDPqw8tnNa+z1FVF5FP6q3XfulPiT M/fxlofZylE971bd/IVK9kx0x5opxwZK2uj6wfIkyqnfWBEJXYur+Bbpf9j7DpI3 CRryaBAqt0j3kBk7sz69IF134wFZLdSVJch/4NuI8rcsDBAwwL3NjJ2K52vnHXul WYFJHaWAntY= =i/UK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]