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Preface

1 Before You Begin

1.1 System Requirements

1.1.1 Operating Systems

1.1.2 Oracle Databases

1.1.3 Oracle Home

1.1.4 Web Browsers

1.1.5 Tablespace

1.1.6 init.ora settings

1.1.7 tnsnames.ora settings

1.1.8 Terminal settings

1.1.9 interMedia Text

1.2 Beta Features

2 Post-installation and Configuration Tasks

2.1 Default Schemas Created

2.2 Default Oracle Portal Accounts Created

2.3 Default Groups Created

2.4 Accessing Oracle Portal in your Browser

2.4.1 Installing language support in Oracle Portal

2.5 Deinstalling Oracle Portal

2.5.1 Deinstalling a single Oracle Portal schema or the Login Server

2.6 Enabling Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

2.6.1 SSL in Apache

2.6.2 SSL in Login Server

2.6.3 Using certificates and HTTPS

3 Configuring the PL/SQL Gateway

3.1 Oracle HTTP Server Modules (mods)

3.2 Configuring the Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache

3.2.1 Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache start and stop script

3.2.2 Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache configuration file

3.2.2.1 mod_plsql setup file

3.2.3 mod_plsql configuration file

3.3 Accessing the Gateway DAD Configuration Page

3.3.1 plsql.conf configuration file

3.3.1.1 UNIX

3.3.1.2 Windows NT

3.4 Starting and Stopping the Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache

3.5 Accessing Help

4 Using interMedia Text in Oracle Portal

4.1 Searching in Oracle Portal

4.1.1 Basic search

4.1.2 Advanced search

4.1.3 interMedia Text search

4.1.4 Viewing interMedia Text search results

4.2 Prerequisites

4.2.1 interMedia Text on UNIX

4.3 Setting up interMedia Text Searching

4.3.1 Step 1: Setting up the Global page settings

4.3.2 Step 2: Enabling interMedia Text searching

4.3.3 Step 3: Creating an interMedia Text index

4.3.4 Step 4: Maintaining your index

4.3.4.1 Synchronizing the interMedia Text index

4.3.4.2 Stopping index maintenance

4.4 Updating an interMedia Text Index

4.5 Dropping an interMedia Text Index

4.6 Starting the Context Server

4.7 Setting up your Environment for interMedia Text

4.7.1 listener.ora

4.7.1.1 System ID

4.7.2 tnsnames.ora

4.8 Multilingual Functionality (Multilexer)

5 interMedia Rich Content in Oracle Portal Reports and Forms

5.1 interMedia Object Types

5.2 Rich Content in Oracle Portal Reports

5.2.1 Object attribute display

5.2.2 Display options

5.2.3 Building the report

5.2.4 QBE Reports - Parameter Entry Form

5.3 Rich Content in Oracle Portal Forms

5.3.1 Building the form

5.4 Using the Navigator to Browse

5.5 Known Issues

6 Distributed Oracle Portal Installations

6.1 What is a node?

6.2 Benefits of a Distributed Oracle Portal Environment

6.2.1 Portlet provider information shared across nodes

6.2.2 Scalable solutions

6.3 Node requirements

6.3.1 Common cookie domain

6.3.2 Oracle HTTP Server powered by Apache configuration

6.3.3 Common cookie name

6.3.4 Common Login Server

6.3.5 Symmetric node registration

6.3.6 URLs in Portlets

6.4 Setting up a Distributed Oracle Portal Environment

6.4.1 Step 1: Create Oracle Portal nodes

6.4.2 Step 2: Create same cookie domain

6.4.3 Step 3: Edit Oracle Portal DADs

6.4.3.1 Access DAD configuration page

6.4.3.2 Configuration

6.4.4 Step 4: Associate nodes with the same Login Server

6.4.5 Step 5: Create a user on the Login Server with administrator privileges

6.4.6 Step 6: Discover the name of each node

6.4.7 Step 7: Register nodes between themselves

6.4.8 Step 8: Refresh the portlet repository for each node

6.4.9 Step 9: Create additional nodes

7 Troubleshooting

7.1 What to do first?

7.1.1 Check Installation Log

7.2 Troubleshooting List

Index