Re: Creating CGI Interface to Oracle database

There was another response also.

To talk directly to a database from a client the perl DBI/DBD interface has to be compiled with the call interface headers and linked with the call interface libraries. Thus if the clients are on the same/similar platform the perl DBI/DBD compilation would be possible, else you will need the call interface library(ies) for the client platform. The alternative is that you need to invoke the perl (with the compiled DBI/DBD) that is resident on the host computer.

Gerard

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"Kurt Cypher" <kurt.cypher_at_wright.edu> wrote in message
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> 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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