Oracle9iAS Web Cache Administration and Deployment Guide -- Index

. (period) symbol

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

" (double quotes) symbol

regular expression, 8-10, 8-13

$ (dollar sign) symbol

embedded URL parameter, 2-7

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

& (ampersand) symbol

embedded URL parameter, 2-7

regular expression, 8-10, 8-13

* (asterisk) symbol

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

; (semi-colon) symbol

embedded URL parameter, 2-7

< (less than sign) symbol

regular expression, 8-10, 8-13

tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-17

> (greater than sign) symbol

regular expression, 8-10, 8-13

? (question mark) symbol

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

[ ] (brackets) symbol

regular expression, 8-9, 8-13

\ (backslash) symbol

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

^ (caret) symbol

regular expression, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

{ } (braces) symbol

regular expression, 8-9, 8-13

' (single quotes) symbol

regular expression, 8-10

1024 port, 10-5

1100 port, 5-7, B-1

4000 port, 5-15, B-1

4001 port, 5-15, 8-3, B-1

4002 port, 9-2, B-1

7777 port, 5-5

80 port, 5-5

Accept request-header field, 2-11

Accept-Charset request-header field, 2-11

Accept-Encoding request-header field, 2-11

Accept-Language request-header field, 2-11

access logs

configuring settings for, 8-31

described, 8-27

disabling, 8-32

examples, 8-29 to 8-30

format, 8-27

XLF fields, 8-27

access_log file, B-2

access_logyyyymmdd, 8-31

ACTION invalidation message element, 8-10, C-4

Active Server Pages (ASP), 1-8, 2-7

admin server process

described, 8-2

restriction, 10-4

administration port, 5-15

administrator user, 5-2, B-1

ADVANCEDSELECTOR invalidation message element, 8-9, C-3

application Web servers

capacity, 5-5

concurrent connections, 2-5

configuring for Oracle Web Cache, 5-5

failover, 1-12, 1-16

connection request threshold, 5-6

polling failed servers, 5-7

load, 2-5

load balancing

configuration, 7-2

described, 1-10

performance assurance, 2-5

performance monitoring, 9-7

session binding

configuring, 7-3

described, 1-14

Application Web Servers page in Oracle Web Cache Manager, 5-5

attempt tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-14

authoritative DNS server, 3-19

backend failover, 1-12

BASICSELECTOR invalidation message element, 8-8, C-3

bin directory, A-1

binding, 1-14

Cache Cleanup page in Oracle Cache Manager, 8-13

cache hit, 1-4, 2-2

Server response-header field, 2-3

cache memory

configuration, 5-8

troubleshooting, 10-4

cache miss, 1-4, 2-2

Server response-header field, 2-3

cache population, 2-2

cache server process

described, 8-2

memory restriction, 10-4

cache size configuration, 5-8

cacheability rules, 6-6 to 6-11

default, 6-5

overview, 6-2

PDF documents, 6-5

capacity

described, 5-5

troubleshooting, 10-10

category cookies

described, 2-10

request and response value comparison, 2-10

certificate, 1-18

certificate authority (CA), 1-17

choose tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-10

comment tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-15

Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 1-8, 2-7

compression

configuring, 6-8

described, 1-19

configuring

access logs, 8-31

application Web server settings, 5-5

cache connection limit, 5-12

cache memory, 5-8

cacheability rules, 6-6 to 6-11

cacheability rules for HTTP error codes, 6-10

cacheability rules for multiple versions of the same document

cookie values, 6-9, 6-16

HTTP request headers, 6-18

cacheability rules for partial page caching, 6-33

cacheability rules for personalized attributes, 6-19

cacheability rules for session tracking, 6-28

cacheability rules for session-encoded URLs, 6-10, 6-19

compression, 6-8

Edge Side Includes (ESI), 6-7, 6-33

event logs, 8-25

expiration rules, 6-8, 6-14

failover of application Web servers, 7-2

load balancing of application Web server, 7-2

partial page caching, 6-33

quick reference to procedures, 4-7

resource limits, 5-8

security settings, 5-2

session binding to an application Web server, 7-3

connection limit

configuring, 5-12

troubleshooting, 10-7

COOKIE invalidation message element, 8-10, C-3, C-5

cookies

cacheability rules

documents with category cookies, 6-9, 6-16

documents with personalized attributes, 6-10, 6-19

documents with session cookies, 6-10, 6-28

category cookies for multiple versions of the same URL, 2-10

described, 1-14

personalized attributes, 2-12

session cookies

for session binding, 1-14

deploying Oracle Web Cache

customer example, 11-1 to 11-7

for part of a Web site, 3-10

in a distributed network, 3-17

in a failover pair, 3-12

inside a firewall, 3-15

outside a firewall, 3-16

with HTTPS requests, 3-4

with multiple application Web servers, 3-9

with one application Web server, 3-2

directory structure

bin directory, A-1

docs directory, A-1

invalidation directory, A-1

lib directory, A-1

logs directory, A-2

mesg directory, A-2

utl directory, A-2

DNS server, 1-4

docs directory, A-1

dynamically generated content caching, 1-8

Active Server Pages (ASP), 1-8, 2-7

Common Gateway Interface (CGI), 1-8, 2-7

described, 2-7

Java Server Pages (JSP), 1-8, 2-7

Java Servlets, 1-8, 2-7

multiple versions of the same document, 2-8

personalized attributes, 2-12

personalized greetings, 2-12

PL/SQL Server Pages (PSP), 1-8, 2-7

session tracking, 2-14

session-encoded URLs, 2-15

Edge Side Includes (ESI)

tag, D-17

attempt tag, D-14

choose tag, D-10

comment tag, D-15

examples

personalized greeting, 6-44

portal site, 6-36

Surrogate-Control response-header field, 6-46

except tag, D-14

exception and error handling, D-7

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE variable, D-4

HTTP_COOKIE variable, D-4

HTTP_HOST variable, D-4

HTTP_REFERER variable, D-4

HTTP_USER_AGENT variable, D-4

include tag, D-9

otherwise tag, D-10

personalized greetings, 6-34

QUERY_STRING variable, D-4

remove tag, D-16

Surrogate-Capability request-header field, 2-2, 2-3

Surrogate-Control response-header field, 6-45

try tag, D-14

vars tag, D-18

when tag, D-10

embedded URL parameters

$ (dollar sign) symbol, 2-7

& (ampersand) symbol, 2-7

; (semi-colon) symbol, 2-7

error messages in event log, E-6

event logs

configuring settings, 8-25

described, 8-23

error messages, E-6

examples of, 8-23 to 8-25

finding errors, 8-25

format, 8-23

information messages, E-2

warning messages, E-4

event_log file, B-2

except tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-14

expiration

concepts of, 2-4

performance assurance heuristics, 6-15

expiration rules, 6-8, 6-14

by cache entry, 6-14

by document creation, 6-14

by HTTP Expires header, 6-14

Expires header, 6-14

failover

configuring, 7-2

connection request threshold, 5-6

described, 1-12

polling failed application Web servers, 5-7

features, new

cache status in Server response-header field, xxx

cacheability selectors, xxix

compression improvements, xxx

Edge Side Includes (ESI), xxix

HTTPS protocol support, xxix

invalidation improvements, xxx

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), xxix

Surrogate-Control header, xxx

firewalls and Oracle Web Cache deployments, 3-16

FoundationPersistentSessionID session, 6-29

GET method, 6-3, 6-6

GET with query string method, 6-3, 6-6

grep command, 8-25

group ID for Oracle Web Cache administration, 5-4

HEADER invalidation message element, 8-10, C-4

HTTP error code cacheability rules, 6-10

HTTP request headers, 2-10, 6-9

cacheability rules for, 6-9, 6-18

supported by Oracle Web Cache, 2-11

HTTP request-header fields

Accept, 2-11

Accept-Charset, 2-11

Accept-Encoding, 2-11

Accept-Language, 2-11

If-Modified-Since, 2-2

Last-Modified, 2-2

Surrogate-Capability, 2-3

Surrogate-Control, 2-3

User-Agent, 2-11

HTTP requests

wallet configuration, 5-17

HTTP response-header fields

Server, 2-3

Set-Cookie, 7-4

Surrogate-Control, 6-45

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE variable, D-4

HTTP_COOKIE variable, D-4

HTTP_HOST variable, D-4

HTTP_REFERER variable, D-4

HTTP_USER_AGENT variable, D-4

HTTPS requests, 3-4

administration port configuration, 5-15

certificate, 1-18

certificate authority (CA), 1-17

invalidation port configuration, 5-16, 8-4

Oracle Web Cache listening port, 5-7

overview, 1-16, 5-7

statistics monitoring port configuration, 5-16, 9-2

wallet, 1-18

ID invalidation response attribute, 8-12, C-5

If-Modified-Since request-header field, 2-2

include tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-9

information messages in event log, E-2

internal_admin.xml file, A-1

internal.xml file, A-1

invalidate.c file, 8-16

Invalidate.java file, 8-16

invalidating documents

database triggers, 8-16

HTTP POST messages, 8-6

invalidate.c, 8-16

Invalidate.java, 8-16

Oracle Web Cache Manager, 8-12

scripts, 8-16

invalidation

concepts of, 2-4

described, 1-9

performance assurance heuristics, 8-14

port number, 8-3, 9-2

user, 5-2

invalidation directory, A-1

INVALIDATION invalidation message element, C-3

invalidation messages

ACTION element, 8-10, C-4

ADVANCEDSELECTOR element, 8-9, C-3

BASICSELECTOR element, 8-8, C-3

compatibility with release 1.0, 8-7

COOKIE element, 8-10, C-3, C-5

HEADER element, 8-10, C-4

INVALIDATION element, C-3

NAME attribute, 8-10, C-3, C-4, C-5

OBJECT element, 8-8, C-3

regular expression

. (period) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

" (double quotes) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

$ (dollar sign) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

& (ampersand) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

* (asterisk) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

< (less than sign) symbol>, 8-10, 8-13

> (greater than sign) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

? (question mark) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

[ ] (brackets) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

\ (backslash) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

^ (caret), 8-9, 8-13

{ } (braces) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

' (single quotes) symbol, 8-10

REMOVALTTL attribute, 8-10, C-4

URI attribute, 8-8, C-3

URIPREFIX attribute, 8-9, C-3

VALUE attribute, 8-10, C-3, C-4

WCSinvalidation.dtd, A-1, C-1

invalidation port, 5-16, 8-4

invalidation responses, 8-12, C-5

ID attribute, 8-12, C-5

NUMINV attribute, 8-12, C-5

RESULT element, 8-12

STATUS attribute, 8-12, C-5

syntax of, 8-8

WCSinvalidation.dtd, A-1, C-1

invalidator user, 5-2, B-1

Java Server Pages (JSP), 1-8, 2-7

Java Servlets, 1-8, 2-7

JSESSIONID session, 6-29

L4 (Layer 4) switches, 3-4

L7 (Layer 7) switches, 3-10

Last-Modified request-header field, 2-2

lib directory, A-1

load balancing

configuring, 7-2

described, 1-10

load on Oracle Web Cache computer, 10-11

Local timestamp conversion issue, 8-26, 8-31

logs directory, A-2

mesg directory, A-2

multiple versions of the same document, 2-8

cookie values, 2-10, 6-16

HTTP request headers, 2-10, 6-9, 6-18

NAME invalidation message attribute, 8-10, C-3, C-4, C-5

netstat command, 5-12

new features

cache status in Server response-header field, xxx

cacheability selectors, xxix

compression improvements, xxx

Edge Side Includes (ESI), xxix

invalidation improvements, xxx

protocol support, xxix

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), xxix

Surrogate-Control header, xxx

NUMINV invalidation response attribute, 8-12, C-5

OBJECT invalidation message element, 8-8, C-3

Oracle Web Cache

admin server process, 8-2

administration, 1-19

benefits

cost savings, 1-6

high availability, 1-6

network traffic reduction, 1-6

performance, 1-5

scalability, 1-5

cache server process, 8-2

deploying

for part of a Web site, 3-10

in a distributed network, 3-17

in a failover pair, 3-12

inside a firewall, 3-15

outside a firewall, 3-16

with HTTPS requests, 3-4

with multiple application Web servers, 3-9

with one application Web server, 3-2

described, 1-2

dynamically generated content caching, 1-8

features

administration, 1-19

backend failover, 1-12

compression, 1-19

invalidation, 1-9

load balancing, 1-10

performance assurance, 1-9

restricted administration, 1-16

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), 1-16

security, 1-16

session binding, 1-14

static content caching, 1-8

surge protection, 1-10

performance monitoring, 9-5

population of the cache, 2-2

with Oracle9i Application Server, 1-2

Oracle Web Cache Manager

administering Oracle Web Cache

administration port, 5-15

cache memory, 5-8

connection limit, 5-12

event logs, 8-25

invalidation port, 5-16

invaliding documents, 8-12

resource limits, 5-8

security settings, 5-2

statistics monitoring port, 5-16

administering Web sites

access logs, 8-31

application Web server settings, 5-5

cacheability rules, 6-6 to 6-11

cacheability rules for HTTP error codes, 6-10

cacheability rules for multiple versions of the same document, 6-9, 6-16, 6-18

cacheability rules for personalized attributes, 6-19

cacheability rules for session tracking, 6-28

cacheability rules for session-encoded URLs, 6-10, 6-19

compression, 6-8

Edge Side Includes (ESI) permission, 6-7

expiration rules, 6-8, 6-14

load balancing, 7-2

session binding, 7-3

wallet location, 5-18

applying changes, 10-12

described, 4-2

introduced, 1-19

monitoring application Web servers

performance statistics, 9-7

monitoring Oracle Web Cache

cache health, 9-3

performance statistics, 9-5

navigator pane, 4-5

restarting Oracle Web Cache, 5-21

right pane, 4-6

starting, 4-2

starting Oracle Web Cache, 8-2

status messages, 4-4

Oracle9i Application Server with Oracle Web Cache, 1-2

OracleHOME_NAMEWebCache service, 5-19, 8-3

OracleHOME_NAMEWebCacheAdmin service, 5-19, 8-3

OracleHOME_NAMEWebCacheMon service, 5-19

otherwise tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-10

partial page caching

cacheability rules, 6-33

configuring, 6-33

described, 2-17

examples

personalized greetings, 6-44

portal site, 6-36

Surrogate-Control response-header field, 6-46

Surrogate-Control response-header field, 6-45

PDF documents, 6-5

performance assurance

described, 2-4

introduced, 1-9

performance assurance heuristics, 1-9, 2-4

application Web server limit, 2-5

application Web server load, 2-5

concurrent connections, 2-5

expiration, 6-15

invalidation, 8-14

popularity, 2-5

validity, 2-5

performance monitoring

application Web servers, 9-7

Oracle Web Cache, 9-5

personalized attribute cacheability rules, 6-19

personalized attributes

Edge Side Includes (ESI), 6-34

WEBCACHEEND HTML tag, 2-12, 6-20

WEBCACHETAG HTML tag, 2-12, 6-20

personalized greetings. See personalized attributes

PL/SQL Server Pages (PSP), 1-8, 2-7

popularity, 2-5

populating the cache, 2-2

port conflicts, 10-2

ports

1024, 10-5

1100, 5-7, B-1

4000, 5-15, B-1

4001, 5-15, 8-3, B-1

4002, 9-2, B-1

7777, 5-5

80, 5-5

administration port, 5-15

invalidation, 5-16, 8-4

Oracle Web Cache listening port, 5-7

statistics monitoring, 5-16, 9-2

POSIX 1003 extended regular expressions, 6-4

POST method, 6-3, 6-6

privileged ports, 10-5

QUERY_STRING variable, D-4

Range request header, 6-6

readme.examples.html file, 8-16, A-1

readme.html file, A-2

regular expression, 6-4

. (period) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

" (double quotes) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

$ (dollar sign) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

& (ampersand) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

* (asterisk) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

< (less than sign) symbol>, 8-10, 8-13

> (greater than sign) symbol, 8-10, 8-13

? (question mark) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

[ ] (brackets) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

\ (backslash) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

^ (caret) symbol, 6-4, 8-9, 8-13

{ } (braces) symbol, 8-9, 8-13

' (single quotes) symbol, 8-10

REMOVALTTL invalidation message attribute, 8-10, C-4

remove tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-16

Resource Limits page in Oracle Web Cache Manager, 5-10, 5-12

restarting Oracle Web Cache, 5-21

RESULT invalidation response element, 8-12

reverse proxy server, 1-2

rules for creating cacheability rules, 6-2

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), 1-16

see HTTPS requests

security, 1-16

Security page in Oracle Web Cache Manager, 5-2

security settings, 5-2

Server response-header field, 2-3

session binding

configuring, 7-3

described, 1-14

session cookies

described, 2-14

request and response value comparison, 2-15

session tracking

cacheability rules, 6-28

described, 2-14

serving the first request from the cache, 6-32

session-encoded URLs

cacheability rules for, 6-10, 6-19

described, 2-15

Set-Cookie response-header field, 7-4

starting

Oracle Web Cache, 5-2

Oracle Web Cache Manager, 4-2

startup failures, 10-2

static content caching, 1-8

statistics monitoring port, 5-16, 9-2

STATUS invalidation response attribute, 8-12, C-5

status messages in Oracle Web Cache Manager, 4-4

surge protection, 1-10

Surrogate-Capability request-header field, 2-2, 2-3

Surrogate-Control response-header field, 6-45

content="ESI/1.0" control directive, 6-46

content="webcache/1.0" control directive, 6-46

max-age control directive, 6-45

no-store control directive, 6-45

no-store-remote control directive, 6-45

top utility, 10-11

troubleshooting

application Web server capacity, 10-10

cache memory, 10-4

caching PDF documents, 6-5

connection limit, 10-7

GMT to local timestamp, 8-26, 8-31

load, 10-11

Oracle Web Cache Manager, 10-12

port conflicts, 10-2

privileged ports, 10-5

startup failures, 10-2

wallet configuration, 10-8

wrong or older cached content, 10-11

trusted subnet for Oracle Web Cache administration, 5-3

try tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-14

uptime utility, 10-11

URI invalidation message attribute, 8-8, C-3

URIPREFIX invalidation message attribute, 8-9, C-3

user ID for Oracle Web Cache administration, 5-4

User-Agent request-header field, 2-11

utl directory, A-2

utl_proc.sql script, 8-16

UTL_TCP Oracle supplied package, 8-16

validity, 2-5

VALUE invalidation message attribute, 8-10, C-3, C-4

vars tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-18

wallet

configuring, 5-17

considerations for Windows operating systems, 5-19

described, 1-18

troubleshooting, 10-8

warning messages in event log, E-4

WCSinvalidation.dtd, A-1, C-1

Web caching

benefits

cost savings, 1-6

high availability, 1-6

network traffic reduction, 1-6

performance, 1-5

scalability, 1-5

described, 1-4

webcachectl start command, 4-7, 5-2, 5-21

webcachectl status command, 4-7, 8-2

webcachectl stop command, 4-7, 5-21

webcachectl utility

obtaining the status of Oracle Web Cache, 8-2

restarting Oracle Web Cache, 5-21

starting Oracle Web Cache, 8-2

stopping Oracle Web Cache, 8-2

webcachectl utility syntax, 4-7

webcached executable, A-1

WEBCACHEEND HTML tag for personalized attributes, 2-12, 6-20

WEBCACHETAG HTML tag for personalized attributes, 2-12, 6-20

webcache.xml file, 10-3, A-2

when tag, Edge Side Includes (ESI), D-10

XLF fields for access logs, 8-27

Index

Symbols

Numerics

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X