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Re: Is it possible to switch to Apache2 with Oracle 9i?

From: ohaya <ohaya_at_cox.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:11:50 -0400
Message-ID: <42E55596.F5AE733A@cox.net>

Billy wrote:
>
> ohaya wrote:
>
> > I have Oracle 9i database server installed on a Windows machine, and the
> > Oracle installation installs Jserv and Apache 1.3x. Is it possible to
> > use a separate Apache2 webserver and get that integrated with the Oracle
> > Jserv environment?
>
> Simple answer, no. Reason: Oracle ship their own shared objects (DLLs)
> for Apache. These use the Apache 1.x API. The Apache 2.x API is
> substantially different and not backwards compatible.
>
> More complex answer, possibly. But the resulting Apache server cannot
> contain v1.x Apache shared objects (and thus none of the 9i supplied
> Apache shared objects), you will need to replace these with Open Source
> and custom code, and you will loose certain functionality that 9i
> supplies. Not to mention that the resulting config will not be Oracle
> certified which could be a major problem if you are reliant on Oracle
> Support for assistance when the smelly stuff hits the fan.

Billy (and Frank),

Thanks for all of the info. You're right that I think that I wouldn't want to go this way, if it's going to take what you're indicating, because part of my rationale for doing the implementation under Oracle Jserv was because I knew that I would have that environment available at work. Plus now that I've coded it to the Jserv environment, my code uses some (I think) of that Oracle-specific functionality, including globals.jsa for holding application-wide variables.

If they (at work) really push to move this to an Apache2 environment, I'll have to see about porting my app to a different environment, possibly to WebLogic, because I know that I can get access to that.

One last question: I gather that the web server installation that installs with Oracle 10g iAS is different than the 1.3.x version that installs with Oracle 9i Database server. Is that also Apache, and does that happen to be some version (which one?) of Apache2?

Thanks,
Jim Received on Mon Jul 25 2005 - 16:11:50 CDT

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