On Monday, December 18, 2000, at 09:23 AM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> well, it's not the same - what he means is for you to export ORACLE_HOME in
> /etc/passwd or somesuch
>
> DBD::Oracle needs ORACLE_HOME set at compile time - for Registry scripts its
> ok to PerlSetEnv so that when your .cgi use()s DBD::Oracle, it's there...
>
> for handlers, though, PerlSetEnv may be too late, especially if you are
> using a startup.pl script. generally what I do is to use a BEGIN block in
> startup.pl to define ORACLE_HOME prior to using Apache::DBI, DBI, and
> DBD::Oracle. if you export it from /etc/profile then you probably don't
> need to do this (but it can't hurt, either - I do both)
>
> I don't know specifically why Apache::Reload is causing this behavior, but
> try the above and see if that clears things up...
Hmmm, I have been using this set up for years and never had
a problem. It is only Apache::Reload that has the problem.
I suspect it may be that I am running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix)
mod_perl/1.21 and there were probably some patches along
the way to mod_perl that fixed up some bugs with environment
variables. I am also going to try using the latest/greatest
mod_perl and see if that fixes the problem.
Thanks for the help/comments.
Cheers,
Mark
