Installing WebDB 3.0 Portal Beta On Solaris

Well, after several frustrating attempts I got the Oracle Portal Beta (WebDB 3.0 Portal Beta) for Solaris running. This effort was caused by the defective install for Solaris that came with the Beta. If you have a download in which the Solaris install seems to work, ignore this. Here is what I did for those who may want to try installing on Solaris before the download is fixed.

Print the Installation Notes for Oracle WebDB 3.0 Beta dated March, 2000. Generally, you should follow the instructions for manually installing on Solaris. The key steps are outlined below as well as the additional steps I had to add to the instructions.

Run the 3 SQL scripts as described in "Manually Installing WebDB 3.0 Beta".

Perform the steps described in "Manually Installing the WebDB Listener on Solaris".

Now for the additional steps:

Create a webdb30 subdirectory in your Oracle 8.1.6 home.

Create a doc subdirectory within webdb30 and copy the htm pages from the support/doc/html subdirectory of the downloaded files into it.

Create an images subdirectory within webdb30 and copy the files from the support/image/images subdirectory of the downloaded files into it.

Now cd to your 8.1.6/listener/cfg subdirectory.

Edit the file wdbsvr.app and everywhere there is a string of characters enclosed in percents replace the percents and string by WEBDB30 (assuming this is what you named the schema in earlier steps). There is one exception: %tns_connect% can be replaced by spaces.

Edit the file wdbsvr.cfg and change the percent enclosed entries to show the paths for the directory mappings. Mine were

[DirMaps]
/ora01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/webdb30/images /images

/ora01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/webdb30/doc /help

[CGIDirMaps]
/ora01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/listener/bin /cgi-bin/

Finally, start the listener (as oracle) with

nohup wdblsnr myhost myport &

Oracle documented the fact that the documentation on wdblsnr is wrong for Solaris. It does not automatically run in the background and it does not need the start nor the stop options. Any unused port can be used.

On my test computer the above command was   nohup wdblsnr ums.aelix.com 1527 &

I then went to another computer and accessed WebDB 3.0 Portal with

http://ums.aelix.com:1527/webdb30/webdb30.portal

Good luck. Hope this saves someone the effort I went through.

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST