Installing Oracle Instant Client on Fedora 9 and PHP

Based on: Apache, PHP, Oracle Instant Client on Fedora 8 (64-bit) and Installing PHP and the Oracle 10g Instant Client for Linux and Windows.

I downloaded the instant client RPMs from Oracle to my local private yum repo that I use for in-house packages. Doesn't everyone have one of those? Then all ya gotta do is...

yum -y install oracle-instantclient-devel oracle-instantclient-basic \
    libaio gcc php-devel

cat <<EOF > /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh
# oracle instantclient
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client64/lib
export     ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client64/
EOF

source /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh

# when prompted hit 1 and then enter
# 'instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client64/lib'
pecl install oci8

cat <<EOF > /etc/php.d/oci8.ini
; Enable oci9 extension module
extension=oci8.so
EOF

service httpd restart

See the links at the top for info on testing and troubleshooting.