Resolved Missing symlink in Plesk setup for MariaDB by provider

[themissingsymlink]

Hi,

Not sure where to post this.

My hosting provider uses Plesk to host my website. They provide a MariaDB database.
I am developing an alternative to PHP to use for my website, so using CGI scripting. The program I develop uses the dynamic library libmariadb.so.3 to run.
The provider has the setup that this library is present in /usr/lib64 and in /usr/lib64/libmariadbclient-plesk-3.0
But there is no symlink libmariadb.so that point to these libs.

Am I right in stating that this is a lack in their setup?

Putting a symlink inside my cgi-bin folder is not an option because that folder is not used when loading/running the cgi program.

I know I can rename my own libmariadb.so file on my local development VM and have the libmariadb.a linked in statically, but I think the dynamic solution should just work too.

Best regards,

Arnold

 

[themissingsymlink]

Instead of using the direct method using my program on the shebang line like this

#!/path/to/cgi-bin/cgiprog -c

Put the symlink myself into the cgi-bin folder. Used the bash shell as an intermediate.

#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/cgi-bin/
sed -n -e '5,$p' < "$0" | /path/to/cgi-bin/cgiprog -c "$0" "$@"
exit $?
THE SCRIPT FOLLOWS HERE FROM LINE 5 AND ON

(Source Multiline Shebang )

I still consider the setup incomplete.

 

[themissingsymlink]

This issue can be closed, as probably the provider had not updated ldconfig. So now the so is in the standard path.
Besides another solution had been to link with -Wl,-rpath,path/to/library