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

[Joel U. <uck...@no...>]

Thus spake Alan Hoyle:
> 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/p
> agedb.gdbm,c): Driver initialization failed for handler: gdbm: File open erro
> r
>       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?
> 
> Again, I apologize if this has been answered in the past.
> 
> -alan

The default Fedora build of php no longer has gdbm support. Re-enabling
gdbm support is very easy, though:

1. Get the source rpm for php.
2. Install it:  rpm -i php-4.x.yy-z.src.rpm
3. Find the line in php.spec that says '--without-gdbm \'  and change that
to '--with-gdbm \'.
4. rpmbuild -bb php.spec
5. Install the php packages you just built.

That should do it.