[Zope] - ZOracle DA...

Jim Fulton jim.fulton@digicool.com
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:57:38 -0500


David White wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been quietly following the development of Zope and I'm VERY
> impressed
> and happy to see such a wonderful tool available as open source.  I've
> been
> anxiously awaiting the release of DCOracle and the ZOracle database
> adapter
> and was overjoyed to see them arrive last week.  Unfortunately, I've run
> into a
> little snag which I was hoping someone could help me through.
> 
> I downloaded both DCOracle and the ZOracle DA (then realizing the
> ZOracle DA
> has DCOracle in the src directory...)  I extracted the ZOracle DA
> product to the
> <Zope_Home>/lib/python/Products location and I then compiled the
> DCOracle
> piece in the <Zope_Home>/lib/python.Products/ZOracleDA/src directory.  I
> ran
> the DCOracle_test.py file and got no errors.  Having thought all was
> well I moved
> the Buffer.so and oci_.so shared libs to the
> <Zope_Home>/lib/python/Products/DCOracle
> directory.  When I restarted Zope, the product appeared to be installed
> correctly
> as it wasn't 'broken' (no tracebacks), but when I tried to create a
> connection
> I got this traceback:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Invalid connection string: xxxxxx

Note that I Xed out the connection string.

Are you sure this was the correct connection string?

Does this connectiuon string work with sqlplus?

(snip)

> I have Zope being published through PCGI.  I have an apache webserver
> which is running as a user
> which 'knows' where ORACLE_HOME so the PCGI process should 'know' this
> too.  Did I just
> miss something obvioius?

If you think that the connection string is correct, you should
try setting ORACLE_HOME in the PCGI info file.

If you still have problems, try sending mail to
support@digicool.com.

Jim

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