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

[Joel U. <uck...@el...>]

> 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 er
> ro
> > 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/page
> s/
> > 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's what I get for trying to answer mail in a lab that's 90+ deg F.
Ignore me, I'm answering a question you didn't ask.