Re: 2 ORACLE_HOME's on Solaris and OAS 4.0.7 help. Newbie

First you need the slim O'Reilly book on Oracle and the web. This provides a great overview of the Oracle Web products and what they can do. I never found a way around having to change the environment variables in a setup like yours (although there may be one). I wrote a couple of simple scripts to do all the work and to make switching easy. All I had to type at the prompt was Oasenv or Oraenv.

Van

"Sid Bartle" <s.bartle_at_murdoch.edu.au> wrote in message news:E2F545F067A9D3118C20009027DC44B00B37242E_at_newnews.murdoch.edu.au...
> Hi,
>
> Question 1
>
> I have Oracle 8i and OAS 4.0.7 running on the same Solaris 7 box. When I
> installed OAS 4.0 it asked me for a new oracle_home I selected
> /ora/app/oracle/4.0.7.
> I now have two oracle homes (/ora/app/oracle/4.0.7 and
> /ora/app/oracle/8.1.5) and only one able to set in the system environment.
 I
> can get around it by changing the env when accessing the different apps
 but
> there must be something I'm missing, as this would seem to be a common
> problem with a messy workaround.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Question 2
>
> After successfully installing OAS reading most of the documentation, going
> through all the tutorials I still can't figure out how to use the thing as
 a
> normal webserver. Can I map students to there homes.....Where can I find
> more information, tutorials, books, internet sites....anything on this
> subject?
>
>
> Last of all can people recommend books on ORACLE 8i and Oracle Application
> Server 4.0?
>
>
> Sid Bartle
> Technician - Software Support
> Division of Business, Information Technology and Law
> Murdoch University
> Western Australia 6160
>
> s.bartle_at_murdoch.edu.au
>
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 17:12:49 CDT