okay. now I am far away from a debugger question, but if you can help..


The powweb system works from an ops panel, no ssh available. I've installed a phpshell tool, but have to search for all files since I have noth path information.

do you have any idea where should I look for getsebool and setsebool?

Thanks

no evidence the SELinux is installed at powweb. certainly cannot find any of the commnads. Can you suggest another way to determine if SELinux is installed?

you have php, so you can write and run something like below:

<?php
echo `getsebool -a 2>&1`;
?>

also, if their linux is rpm-based, you can check if SELinux package is installed by running:

<?php
echo `rpm -qa|grep -i selinux';
?>

please note that neither will work if your account is chroot-ed. It would be better to contact hosting company support. After all, you're trying to install something on +their+ machine. Why not to inform them and ask for help?

I've contacted the hosting company. First level tech support says the problem will go away if I just remove the zend_extension=.....dbg.so-5.2.x line

I'm working with the supervisor. Apparently php is served API is CGI and I suspect that CGI wants the file to be owned by staff and member of group root. Hopefully I can get them to make these changes for me. first line support thought we were not allowed to load our own .so files.

Is there another way to load the debugger?

this writeup explains the server configuration
http://www.google.com/search?q=PHP_running_in_CGI_PHPsuexec_mode_and_PHP_running_as_an_Apache_module

I'm not sure but looks like 0777 is not that good.
Did you check with supervisor that SELinux was enabled on the server?

Powweb supervisor cannot confirm SELinux. They are telling me they donot allow loading of user provided .so files. I am still pleading my case. I think I need the to chown and chgrg to the same owner and group as that zend optomizer is unning under. At powweb this would be group root, owner staff. I have already chmod to 755 which I believe is correct.

So for now it is political battles. I will install debugger on an alternet site to test.

can't help thinking it's strange...
I'll check php+apache in suexec CGI mode under a 2.6 linux with 2.3 glibc to make sure that there are no software barriers other than SELinux.
BTW, did you compare path to ZO in php.ini with phisical file locations as you see them? I'm asking just to make sure that you're not chrooted.