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kmitz

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Heads up on Nexcess/CentOS 5
December 12, 2011, 05:11:15 pm
Hey,

If I'm not mistaken, I believe CiviCRM uses PEAR DB.  I have a couple of sites on Nexcess servers.  Some of their servers have upgraded from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5.  The latter does not appear to support PEAR DB.  I spent quite a while trying to get a db connection until I finally tried PEAR MDB2, which worked.

I haven't had a CiviCRM installation on a CentOS 5 server to my knowledge yet, but I'm expecting it/them to break when this eventually happens.  Has anyone found a workaround?  There were no error messages being generated.  The DB object would be created and would fail silently when I performed a query.  No DB_Error object returned, and nothing in the logs.  Still don't know what happened.

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Re: Heads up on Nexcess/CentOS 5
December 12, 2011, 07:13:46 pm

civicrm ships with its own copies of all the PEAR libraries it needs (irrespective of the underlying OS)

not sure what  u mean by centos 5 not support PEAR. Are there any links that reference this incompatibility

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Re: Heads up on Nexcess/CentOS 5
December 20, 2011, 05:00:28 am
Not that it doesn't support PEAR, just not PEAR DB, at least I haven't been able to get it to work on some of their servers.  MDB2 works just fine.
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