hello is this not a problem of user rights? With IIS under XP, the user is always something as IUSR_xxx, so , the c:\oracle folder must be granted execute grants to IUSR_xx try to figure out under what user Apache is executed (see the Taskt Manager to check the user running the Apache process) and change the windows security on the oci client directories to allow execute grants to that user on all files. Vincent Dupont Principal Consultant OpenSource Competence Center Ausy Belgium http://www.ausy.be -----Original Message----- From: Fahad Pervaiz [mailto:fahad.pervaiz@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 14:41 To: MiguelJose.Jimenez@xxxxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: OCI8 under WINDOWS #####ORIGINAL###### Hi, I am trying to use oci8.dll under PHP 5.2 and Apache 2 under Windows XP... The system variables are all configured (TNS_ADMIN, SQLPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc...). I use ORACLE Instant Client and sqlplus works OK ... PHP-CLI loads the extension without any problem but I cannot get it load under APACHE (with the help of phpinfo()) ... Any idea why it won't load? ####END ORINGINAL### Uninstall oracle instant client Restart your windows machine Download complete oracle client from oracle website http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html Restart your windows machine Every oci8 should work fine now. If not you can try installing Zend Core for Oracle. -- Regards Fahad Pervaiz www.ecommerce-xperts.com (Shopping Cart Applications, Framework for Multilingual Web Sites, Web Designs) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php