Re: OWA can't use 8-bit charset to connect to Oracle

From: Owen Crowley <owen_at_hodes.com>
Date: 1996/06/14
Message-ID: <owen-1406962201170001_at_199.35.160.33>#1/1


In article <1996Jun14.014055.4406_at_sgcl1.unisg.ch>, dlincke_at_bandon.unisg.ch (David-Michael Lincke) wrote:

> You need to have the environment variables ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID or
> TWO_TASK, ORA_NLS and NLS_LANG visible to the CGI process executing owa not
> the http server itself.
> There is two solutions to your problem:
> 1. create a wrapper around owa, that's properly initializes the
> environment.
> 2. modify the httpd source so it will pass the required environment
> variables on to the cgi process in addition to the ones it passes on
> anyway.

I did the latter and it worked. Setting only ORA_NLS and NLS_LANG wasn't enough, so I also set ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Thanks! Received on Fri Jun 14 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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