Some people can be frightened off by the thought of building a Linux web server from source, let alone adding PHP support. There are, of course, other options available such as packaged binary distributions of Apache, PHP, and Zend Core for ORACLE. But if building your own Apache installation from scratch is non-negotiable, then it's time to roll those sleeves up again.

In this article, we throw caution to the wind and go one step further and add ORACLE support into the mix. In for a penny, in for a pound as the saying goes!

For the benefit of Linux users who wish to build Apache and PHP from source, what follows is a cookbook approach to building and configuring Apache 2.2.3 and PHP 5.2.0 for use with a locally installed ORACLE database.

Just the other day I dropped a note in the Drupal.org forums asking for some volunteer ORACLE testers for the OraDrup project. I was almost shocked at the speed with which the topic hit the Drupal.org front page.

So, for the benefit of people coming here from Drupal.org and, no doubt, other places, I'll use this as a signpost, indicating the general direction of the ORACLE/Drupal goodies.

I would first like to remind people that this is still just a call for volunteer testers. Let's not get too over-excited! I have spent a fair amount of time in the testing phase and have exhausted the avenues down which I had planned to go. I am really very keen, now, to hear from people wishing to lend a hand of their own with testing. Hopefully we can expose and address any problems that are still to be discovered at this stage rather than in months to come when we're all busy doing other things.

So, if the idea of helping Drupal establish itself upon the ORACLE 9i or 10g platform excites you, please get in touch so that I can send you some more information. The goodies are available here.

Well, the aim was simple enough: to have a go at getting Drupal to run under Win2k and ORACLE 10g Express Edition.

Famous last words? ...

You can do worse than take a fifteen-minute break to listen to this graduation ceremony speech by Steve Jobs. Three short stories to think about and digest. Nothing more need be said.
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