I'm at my wits' end on this. I have 2 RH7 boxes that I just installed httpd24 (v2.4.34) on. They were running httpd (v2.4.6) without any connection problems. Now when I try and run Perl scripts from the browser, they fail with...
install_driver(Informix) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/DBD/Informix/Informix.so' for module DBD::Informix: libifsql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
at (eval 5) line 3.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 5) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at /var/www/html/app/cgi-bin/test_informix_odbc.cgi line 35.
But when I run the same script from the command line, as 'apache', it runs just fine. All the ENV vars are set correctly.
Anyone run into anything similar before?
It would no longer use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable I was setting in httpd.conf.
Services are started in a fresh environment without any influence of user's environment (like environment variable values). As a consequence, information of all enabled collections will be lost during service start up.
Newer versions of httpd have stopped bringing the user environment in when the service is started. I found this little blurb in /opt/rh/httpd24/service-environment.
grep -r "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" /opt/rh/httpd24/
/opt/rh/httpd24/enable:export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rh/httpd24/root/usr/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}
I prepended the standard informix paths in /opt/rh/httpd24/enable.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/IBM/informix/lib:/opt/IBM/informix/lib/esql:/opt/rh/httpd24/root/usr/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}
And everything is back to normal. Woohoo!