--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...> wrote:

> > When you ran RC6 you didn't have to tweak anything, I cannot seem to
> > get it to work at all, I tried RC6 on suse 8.2 and could not get it
> > to work. Lester did you ONLY use the suse packaged version of PHP
> > and APACHE?
>
> No - I downloaded the source for PHP from www.php.net and
> built from that. (4.3.3)
> I used the notes, and don't remember having any problems,
> but I do need to run through it again on a clean machine
> before I update my installation guide to add Linux notes.
>
> If you delete the interbase.so, does it give you a warning
> that it can't find it ( like windows ) or does it just start?
>
> Apache 1 or 2, I'm running 2 but people keep telling me I
> should switch back to 1 for production.
>
> I don't know if it is worth switching back to FB1 and trying
> that. I did have that working first before switching to FB1.5.
>
> Sorry I don't have time to have another run through here,
> I've got to get the next cut of my Web Based site out - and
> I am checking that on both Windows and Linux so I have
> SOMETHING working ;)
>
> --
> Lester Caine
> -----------------------------
> L.S.Caine Electronic Services

Just to follow up. I finally got apache to run with php support for
firebird(CS 1.5) without crashing. I also used php 4.3.3 and didn't
just compile the module I uninstalled suse's mod_php and installed a
version compiled from the source using most of the configure arguments
I got from the suse verson using phpinfo() before I uninstalled it.

Well now when a php script comes across an ibase_connect() command
I get:

Warning: ibase_connect(): operating system directive open failed
Permission denied in zaddplant.php on line 47
Cannot Connect.

I thought I had permissions wrong but now I think firebird is not
running at all. Can you connect using isql to a database like
/opt/firebird/bin/isql /opt/firebird/examples/employee.gdb
without actually having the server runnning?

What is the process that should be running for me to connect to?
I thought fb_lock_mgr was it, but that does not seem to work with that
running.
I was trying /opt/firebird/bin/isql
localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.gdb
this does not work, and I added localhost and localhost.localdoman to
hosts.equiv. And the install did create the file
/etc/xinetd.d/firebird file for the service gds_db. I am kind of
clueless to how this all ties in some insight would be very helpful
thanks.

Should I just use CS1.0 and not CS1.5 or is SS an easier install?

By the way I didn't see any errors when I started apache with rcapache
start or (whatever the startup script is called) when I just deleted
the interbase.so module while keeping the entry in the conf file.
Thanks
Ian