Installing PHP-5.2.6 with Informix Support on RHEL-5

skb2005 · 05-22-2008, 05:23 PM

Hi All,

I need help installing PHP-5.2.6 with informix support on RHEL-5.

I have installed Apache --Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8b DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6

I have used the following script to install PHP

Code:

wget http://us3.php.net/get/php-5.2.6.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror ;

tar -zxvf php-5.2.6.tar.gz

cd php-5.2.6

./buildconf --force

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache2/php \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/php/conf \
--with-gd \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-freetype \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-mssql \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--enable-shmop \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-sysvshm \
--with-curl \
--with-curlwrappers \
--with-pfpro=/usr/local/verisign/payflowpro/linuxrh9 \
--enable-xml \
--enable-pdo \
--with-pdo-informix=/home/informix \
--enable-shared


make
make test
make install

I do not encounter any error during the installation.

When I try to execute PHP which connects to Informix, i get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ifx_connect() in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/dbfuncs.inc on line 86

Please help.

Thanks,

Sanjiv

skb2005 · 05-22-2008, 05:27 PM

I forgot to mention that we have Informix Dynamic Server 11 (IDS 11).
Informix ClientSDK is also installed.
I initialized informix environment variables as well.

lazlow · 05-22-2008, 07:22 PM

Get the src rpm from RHEL (newest version) and look at the spec file. It will give you a good idea what needs to happen in order to setup the "standard" php on RHEL.

skb2005 · 05-23-2008, 11:05 AM

Which spec file are we talking about? I would appreciate if you can explain in little detail.

lazlow · 05-23-2008, 11:24 AM

The spec file for php from the newest RHEL PHP src.rpm. Basically the spec file tells the src.rpm how to build the source in such a way that RHEL will be happy (all the flags and directories that need to be redirected). Now the version of the src.rpm will probably be older than the version you are compiling, but it should get you 90% of the way there. Normally (assuming you are running Gnome), you can just right click on the src.rpm and extract here. This will give you the spec file and the source (still tarred). You can ignore the source (from the src.rpm).