Re: Creating CGI Interface to Oracle database

I think that the DBI/DBD FAQ for Oracle covers what you have to have installed. I have only successfully installed it with a full install of the RDBMS (on solaris). I believe the FAQ says that you can do it with only sqlnet and some additional libraries.

Mike

Kurt Cypher wrote:
>
> We currently have an Oracle server set up on our network,
> and I've been tasked with figuring out how to set up some
> web pages on our web server to access our Oracle database.
> We have recently been doing some projects where we had MySQL
> running on our web server, and used Perl CGI scripts to
> access those databases, but since we have an Oracle server
> running, it's been decided that we ought to make use of that
> and start modifying our Perl CGI to access Oracle.
>
> The Perl part we think will not be a problem, but our main
> question is: is there an Oracle client application that we
> need to run on our web server, in order to get our scripts
> to talk to our Oracle server, or can the Perl DBI & DBD talk
> directly to the Oracle database on the other machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt
>
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Received on Thu Jun 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT