Re: Angst! OAS 4.0.8.1 & Forms 6i

Go to Metalink and the Forms forum. There is a message I posted yesterday or the day before that Oracle answered. They provided a great many links which you will find very useful. By the way, the new iAS which replaces OAS integrates a number of these things - OAS, FormsServer6i etc. etc. and it also includes Apache.

Van

James <jamesmckay_at_MailAndNews.com> wrote in message news:396CA76B_at_MailAndNews.com...
> Hi All,
> Apologies in advance if this isn't quite the right group, but I
> couldn't
> see a more appropriate one. I have had major problems trying to get
 Oracle
> Application Server 4.0.8.1 to talk to Forms 6i on NT. I can't seem to
 find
> definitive instructions on what needs to be done in order for these
 products
> to work together. I can get OAS serving PL/SQL pages no problem, but when
> it
> comes to installing Forms I'm at a loss. Some documentation says you need
 to
> install OAS in it's own ORACLE_HOME, some say they both must be installed
 in
> the same one - by a different user! The installation of the actual
> cartridge
> is an even bigger mystery in that metalink documents say it should be
> installed as "C Web" - but Oracle's helpdesk seem to think it doesn't
> require
> installation at all! I realise this is a fairly new product but I can't
> believe it's so awkward.
> Please can someone tell me what the correct answer is? I'm sure there
 must
> be
> one.
> Any suggestions would be a great help.
> Thanks in advance
> James
>
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Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT