OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed

2010-03-15 124 words One minute

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Wanted to work on an Oracle-backed project from home last weekend; e.g.,

Warning (2): ocilogon() [function.ocilogon]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set and point to the right directories [CORE/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo/dbo_oracle.php, line 171]

ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are environment variables I’d defined in my ~/.bashrc; e.g.,

. /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh

And phpinfo() seems to suggest that it’s OK:

OCI8 Support enabled
Version 1.4.1
Revision $Revision: 293235 $
Active Persistent Connections 0
Active Connections 0
Compile-time ORACLE_HOME /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
Libraries Used -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib -L/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib -lclntsh
Temporary Lob support enabled
Collections support enabled

Except it isn’t. The fix is in /etc/apache2/envvars; e.g.,

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib:

My journey with Oracle Database has been rocky. I wonder why this is so… inaccessible.