It is. You can override it in the conf file however. Later,
Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Florian Clever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:33 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] tnsnames.ora + Apache & symbolic links > I recently posted a question regarding connecting to a TNS service from PHP. > > I had been getting the error TNS operation timed out from PHP while > connecting via sqlplus worked perfectly fine. > If I was not using a TNS alias from PHP but a real connect string such as > (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DAT > A=(SID=qa))) it worked perfectly fine as well. > > I had a symbolic link pointing from $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin to > tnsnames.ora file (cvs checked out version). After replacing the symbolic > link with a hard link it worked fine. > > Is it that Apache does not follow the symbolic links outside of its home for > security reasons? > > Florian > > http://fc.clever-soft.com > http://www.clever-software-solutions.de > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
