Re: Did Anybody install 9iAsR2 (infrastructure+middle-tier) on Windows?

Henry,
I had a lot of trouble installing 9iAS on Win2k. Bought the book Oracle Web Applications 101 by Sten Vesterli (Oracle Press via Osborne). It helped quite a bit ... but I still have a zillion post-it notes on nearly every page to make corrections. Sten's web site is supposed to contain the code samples, but I couldn't find them when I looked (a couple of months ago). I've installed it about 8 times now (from original "proof of concept" computer to "test" computer to "mid-tier" computer ... and finally - phew - in production).

The biggest problem is that the release notes and everything else (book included) refer to old or outdated stuff. For example, docs keep referring to WebDB (what Oracle Portal used to be partially, and you can't do what the docs say ... WebDB ain't the same). A lot of the readme files are incorrect. It appears that Oracle just took a bunch of Open Source stuff (like Apache) and tossed it all on a CD ... and it's up to the customer to sort it all out. It's definitely not ready for prime time. I'm just glad I didn't have to use all the tools ... mostly just wanted Oracle Reports and Portal.

You said you did a default install. Well, unfortunately, that's not going to work very well. You have to do a custom install ... with lots of optional steps and fiddling around to make it work. For example, you don't want to let it install Apache (if you want to have the default port 80). If you can find the book mentioned above, that will be a good starting point. But since part of 9iAS is 8.0.6 and part is 8.1.x and who knows what all else, you end up with multiple ORACLE_HOMEs ... each with their own tnsnames.ora files (I had to manually copy the Report Server line created in one of them to all the others before I could get Oracle Reports to connect).

Good luck,
Roger Crowley

sg wrote:
> why do you think windows is released 6, 7 weeks after other platforms
> are out, it is released patched
>
> you have some concept problem here,
> host_name.wwsso_app_admin.is_login:7777
> is your SSO Server, when you logon to Portal your user has to be
> authentificated in SSO Server that's why you are redirected to above
> address and port. are you you have your http server started in
> infrastructure node?
>
> report server cannot start or stopped from enterprise manager, several
> bugs. look on metalink
>
>
> ias r2 is pretty shitty anyways
>
>
> Henry Kam wrote:
>

>> Hello,
>> Please advise on 9iAsR2 on Windows platform...Thanks in advance..
>>
>> I installed 9iAsR2 (infrastructure+middle-tier) on the same Machine
>> Windows NT4 Sp6 (The installation is much much easier than
>> that for UNIX...AT least NO PATCHES!!!!). All installations are in
>> default
>> options...
>>
>> I  have problem starting the following Instances in the Middle-tier:
>>
>>    Portal:portal:7778
>>               not able to start most of the time when selecting "start
>> all" in em
>>               sometime able to start but error occurs when browsing to
>>               the Oracle9iAs Portal page thru
>>
>> http://mysite:7778/portal/page?_paged=1.1.1_30460&dad=portal&
>> _schema=PORTAL
>>                      or
>>
>> http://mysite:7779/portal/page?_paged=1.1.1_30460&dad=portal&
>> _schema=PORTAL
>>
>>     to logon; the error is
>>
>>             "Netscape is unable to locate
>> server                          host_name.wwsso_app_admin.is_login:7777"
>>
>>                     I donot know why 7777 shows up even though the URL
>>                     is http://mysite:7778/ or http://mysite:7779/
>>
>>      By the way: Oracle installation configured the following ports:
>>
>>           in %INFRASTRUCTURE_HOME%/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf
>>           and in %INFRASTRUCTURE_HOME%/install/portlist.ini
>>
>>             7777 is configured as "PORT" and "LISTENER PORT"
>>             7778 is configured as "Web Cache HTTP Listener(non-SSL)
>> Port"
>> while
>>
>>           in %MIDDLE_TIER_HOME%/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf
>>           and in  %MIDDLE_TIER_HOME%/install/portlist.ini
>>
>>             7778 is configured as "LISTENER","DISCOVERER PORT",
>>             and "Web Cache HTTP Listener(non-SSL) Port"
>>             7779 is configured as "PORT"
>>
>> What do I need to do?
>>
>>
>>
>>    Reports: not able to start from em and from command line:
>>                                   rwserver.sh server=
>>    Wirelesss:not able to start
>>
>>