Re: [Phpwiki-talk] FC3, PHPWiki problem...

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Alan Hoyle schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've done a few searches for answers online, but the archives for 
> PHPWiki list at sourceforge appear to be down (along with the entire 
> search capability at sf.net)....
> 
> Anyway, I was happily running PHPWiki 1.3.x on RedHat 9.0 for a long 
> time and finally got fed up with the lack of updates.  So, I upgraded to 
> Fedora Core 3.  I discovered that the default installation of PHP didn't 
> include GDBM support, so I installed the php-4.3.11-2.4.src.rpm, edited 
> the spec file to add the --with-gdbm and --enable-dba options, 
> recompiled, and reinstalled PHP.  restarted Apache, and I'm now getting 
> the following error message:
> 
>   lib/DbaDatabase.php:54: Error[256]: 
> dba_open(/home/alanh/html/wiki/pages/pagedb.gdbm,c): Driver 
> initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File open error
>      file: /home/alanh/html/wiki/pages/pagedb.gdbm
>      mode: c
>      handler: gdbm
> 
> I don't think this is a permissions problem:
> 
> $ ls -l /home/alanh/html/wiki/pages/pagedb.gdbm
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 apache apache 1024021 Apr 13 08:46 
> /home/alanh/html/wiki/pages/pagedb.gdbm*
> 
> Any suggestions as to what to try?

Yes,
see the current sozurce of lib/DbaDatabase.php what I had to do to 
workaround gdbm bugs.
if "c" fails try "w" with the second try.
Only Windows needs "-"

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