Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide -- Contents

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1.1 What Is the Oracle Application Server?

1.1.1 What are the Oracle Application Server Solutions and Components?

1.1.2 Overview of the Oracle Application Server Architecture

1.1.2.1 What Are the Middle-Tier Components?

1.1.2.2 What Are the Infrastructure Components?

1.2 Understanding the OracleAS Portal Architecture

1.2.1 How Does OracleAS Portal Integrate with Other Components?

1.2.2 How Do the Pieces Fit Together?

1.2.2.1 How Are Pages Assembled in OracleAS Portal?

1.2.2.2 How Does Communication Flow in OracleAS Portal?

1.3 Understanding Caching in OracleAS Portal

1.3.1 Understanding OracleAS Web Cache

1.3.2 Understanding Portal Cache

1.3.3 Understanding Cache Invalidation in OracleAS Portal

1.3.3.1 Cache Invalidation Resource Requirements

1.3.3.2 Cache Invalidation and Multiple DADs

1.3.4 What's Next?

2.1 What Do I Need to Consider?

2.1.1 Which Topology Is Right for Me?

2.1.2 How Much Hardware Do I Need?

2.1.3 How Can I Maximize Performance?

2.1.4 How Can I Make My Portal Scale?

2.1.5 How Can I Make My Portal Highly Available?

2.1.6 How Can I Secure My Portal?

2.1.7 How Should I Configure My Hardware and Software?

2.1.7.1 Using a Single Machine

2.1.7.2 Using Multiple Machines

2.1.8 Getting the Most Out of Your Configuration

2.1.8.1 Load Balancing

2.1.8.2 Failover and Redundancy

2.1.8.3 Scalability

2.2 What Do I Need to Do?

2.2.1 Planning Your Portal

2.2.2 Verifying Pre-Installation Requirements

2.2.3 Installing OracleAS Portal

2.2.4 Performing Post-Installation Configuration

2.2.5 Performing Advanced Configuration

2.2.6 Securing OracleAS Portal

2.2.7 Monitoring OracleAS Portal

2.2.8 Troubleshooting OracleAS Portal

3.1 How Does the Installation Process Work?

3.2 What Is Installed By Default?

3.3 Configuring OracleAS Portal During and After Installation

4.1 Getting Started with OracleAS Portal Administration

4.1.1 Using the OracleAS Portal Administer Tab

4.1.2 Using Additional Administrative Tools

4.1.2.1 Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control

4.1.2.2 Portal Dependency Settings File and Tool

4.1.2.3 OracleAS Portal Configuration Assistant

4.1.2.4 Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts

4.2 Finding Out Information About Portal

4.2.1 Accessing OracleAS Portal in Your Browser

4.2.2 Finding Your OracleAS Portal Version Number

4.3 Performing Basic Page Administration

4.3.1 Setting a Default Home Page

4.3.1.1 Setting the System Default Home Page

4.3.1.2 Setting a Group's Default Home Page

4.3.1.3 Setting a User's Default Home Page

4.3.2 Setting the System Default Style

4.3.3 Creating Personal Pages

4.3.3.1 Automatically Creating a Personal Page for New Users

4.3.3.2 Creating a Personal Page for an Existing User

4.3.4 Setting the Total Space Allocated for Uploaded Files

4.3.5 Setting the Maximum File Size for Uploaded Files

4.3.6 Changing the Page Group Quota

4.3.7 Specifying an Error Message Page

4.3.8 Setting the Page Users See When They Log Out

4.3.9 Removing the Context-Sensitive Help Link

4.4 Configuring Self-Registration

4.5 Performing Basic Portal Administration

4.5.1 Simplifying the Full URL of an OracleAS Portal Instance

4.5.2 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server to Use the OracleAS Portal Homepage

4.5.3 Configuring a Portal DAD

4.5.4 Clearing the Portal Cache

4.5.5 Using a Custom Image Directory

4.6 Configuring Mobile Support in OracleAS Portal

4.6.1 What Is Installed By Default?

4.6.2 Configuring Mobile Settings in OracleAS Portal

4.6.2.1 Enabling Mobile Access

4.6.2.2 Enabling Mobile Page Design

4.6.2.3 Logging Mobile Responses

4.6.3 Manually Reconfiguring the Mobile Setup

4.6.3.1 Updating the OracleAS Portal Home Page URL References

4.6.3.2 Updating the OracleAS Wireless Portal Service URL Reference

4.7 Managing Users, Groups, and Passwords

4.8 Configuring Browser Settings

4.9 Configuring Language Support

4.10 Configuring OracleAS Portal for WebDAV

4.10.1 Performing Basic WebDAV Configuration

4.10.2 Setting Up a WebDAV Client

4.10.3 Checking the Version of OraDAV Drivers

4.10.4 Checking the Version of mod_oradav.so

5.1 Changing the OracleAS Portal Port

5.2 Configuring SSL

5.3 Configuring Multiple Middle-Tiers with a Load Balancing Router

5.3.1 Step 1: Install a Single Portal and Wireless Middle-Tier (M1)

5.3.2 Step 2: Configure OracleAS Portal on M1 to Be Accessed Through the LBR

5.3.3 Step 3: Confirm That OracleAS Portal is Up and Running

5.3.4 Step 4: Install a New Portal and Wireless Middle-Tier (M2)

5.3.5 Step 5: Configure the New Middle-Tier (M2) to Run Your Existing Portal

5.3.6 Step 6: Configure Portal Tools and Web Providers (Optional)

5.3.7 Step 7: Enable Session Binding on OracleAS Web Cache

5.3.8 Step 8: Confirm the Completed Configuration

5.4 Configuring Virtual Hosts

5.4.1 Create Virtual Hosts

5.4.1.1 Create the Virtual Host for www.xyz.com

5.4.1.2 Create the Virtual Host for www.abc.com

5.4.1.3 Verify the httpd.conf File

5.4.1.4 Verify That the Virtual Hosts are Configured Correctly

5.4.2 Configure OracleAS Web Cache

5.4.3 Register OracleAS Portal with OracleAS Single Sign-On

5.4.4 Verify the Configuration

5.5 Configuring OracleAS Portal to Use a Proxy Server

5.6 Configuring Reverse Proxy Servers

5.6.1 Ensure That Self-Referential URLs Work

5.6.2 Configure Loopback to the Internal Server

5.6.3 Specify the OracleAS Portal Published Address and Protocol

5.6.4 Configure Seeded Providers and Locally Hosted Web Providers

5.6.5 Register the Domain Name

5.6.6 Verify Your Configuration

5.7 Configuring OracleAS Web Cache Caching in OracleAS Portal

5.7.1 Accessing OracleAS Web Cache Manager

5.7.2 Configuring OracleAS Web Cache Settings Using Application Server Control

5.7.3 Configuring OracleAS Web Cache Settings Using OracleAS Portal

5.7.3.1 Clearing the Entire Web Cache

5.7.3.2 Clearing the Cache for a Particular User

5.7.3.3 Setting the Expiry Time for Invalidation-based Caching

5.7.3.4 Clearing the Cache for a Particular Portal Object

5.7.4 Clearing the Cache Invalidation Queue Through SQL*PLUS

5.7.5 Evaluating the OracleAS Web Cache Logs

5.7.6 OracleAS Web Cache Configuration Scripts

5.7.7 Troubleshooting OracleAS Web Cache Configuration

5.8 Changing the Infrastructure Services Used By a Middle-Tier

5.9 Configuring OracleAS Wireless

5.10 Changing the OracleAS Portal Schema Password

6.1 About OracleAS Portal Security

6.1.1 OracleAS Portal Security Model

6.1.2 Classes of Users and Their Privileges

6.1.2.1 OracleAS Portal Default, Seeded User Accounts

6.1.2.2 OracleAS Portal Default, Seeded Groups

6.1.3 Resources Protected

6.1.3.1 Global Privileges

6.1.3.2 Object Privileges

6.1.3.3 Privileges to Create and Edit Web Providers and Provider Groups

6.1.3.4 Privileges to Create/Edit URL/XML Portlets in the Portlet Repository

6.1.4 Authorization and Access Enforcement

6.1.5 Leveraging Oracle Application Server Security Services

6.1.6 Leveraging Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure

6.1.6.1 Relationship Between OracleAS Portal and OracleAS Single Sign-On

6.1.6.2 Relationship Between OracleAS Portal and Oracle Internet Directory

6.1.6.3 Relationship Between OracleAS Portal and Oracle Internet Directory

6.1.6.4 Relationship Between OracleAS Portal and DAS

6.1.6.5 User Portlet

6.1.6.6 Portal User Profile Portlet

6.1.6.7 Group Portlet

6.1.6.8 Portal Group Profile Portlet

6.1.6.9 DAS Public Roles

6.1.7 Security for Portlets

6.1.7.1 Authentication

6.1.7.2 Authorization

6.1.7.3 Communication Security

6.1.7.4 Single Sign-On

6.1.7.5 Access Control Lists

6.1.7.6 Programmatic Portlet Security

6.1.7.7 OracleAS Portal Server Authentication

6.1.7.8 Message Authentication

6.1.7.9 HTTPS Communication

6.1.7.10 Configuration of SSL

6.1.8 Securing the OmniPortlet and Simple Parameter Form

6.1.9 Securing the Web Clipping Provider

6.1.9.1 Adding Certificates for Trusted Sites

6.1.9.2 Configuring Oracle Advanced Security for the Web Clipping Provider

6.1.10 Securing the Federated Portal Adapter

6.1.11 Securing OraDAV

6.1.11.1 Session Cookie Expiration

6.1.11.2 SSL and OraDAV

6.2 Configuring OracleAS Security Framework for OracleAS Portal

6.2.1 Configuring OracleAS Security Framework Options for OracleAS Portal

6.2.2 Configuring Oracle Identity Management Options for OracleAS Portal

6.2.2.1 Setting the Appropriate Naming and Nickname Attributes

6.2.2.2 Configuring the Portal Administrator for Single Sign-On Administration

6.3 Configuring OracleAS Portal Security

6.3.1 Configuring OracleAS Portal Security Options

6.3.2 Configuring Options for OracleAS Security Framework

6.3.2.1 Configuring SSL for OracleAS Portal

6.3.2.2 Securing the Connection to Oracle Internet Directory (Optional)

6.3.2.3 Changing Settings on the Global Settings Page

6.3.2.4 Post-Installation Security Checklist

6.3.3 Configuring OracleAS Portal Options for Database Security

7.1 Using the Application Server Control

7.1.1 Accessing the Application Server Control

7.1.2 Using Application Server Control to Configure OracleAS Portal

7.2 Using Application Server Control to Monitor and Administer OracleAS Portal

7.2.1 General

7.2.2 OracleAS Metadata Repository

7.2.3 Portal Web Cache Settings Page

7.2.4 Component Status

7.2.4.1 HTTP Server

7.2.4.2 mod_plsql Services

7.2.4.3 Web Cache

7.2.4.4 Parallel Page Engine Services

7.2.4.5 Providers

7.2.4.6 Syndication Services

7.2.4.7 Ultra Search

7.2.5 Severity Status

7.2.6 Related Link

7.2.7 Logs Link

7.2.8 Updating OracleAS Portal Link to Oracle Enterprise Manager

7.2.9 Enabling Monitoring For Oracle9iAS Portal Repository (9.0.2)

7.3 Viewing OracleAS Portal Analytics

7.3.1 OracleAS Portal Activity Reports from mod_plsql Logs

7.3.2 OracleAS Portal Activity Reports from the Portal Activity Log Tables

7.3.2.1 Logged Events

7.3.2.2 Choosing Which Events are Logged

7.3.2.3 Activity Log Views

7.3.2.4 Accessing Activity Log Views Externally

7.4 Viewing Oracle Application Server Port Information

8.1 Search Options in OracleAS Portal

8.1.1 OracleAS Portal Search

8.1.2 Oracle Ultra Search

8.1.3 Default Search Functionality

8.1.4 Deciding Which Search Options to Use

8.1.5 Differences Between Oracle Ultra Search and OracleAS Portal Searches

8.1.6 Where to Find Configuration Information

8.2 Configuring OracleAS Portal Search Options

8.2.1 Configuring OracleAS Portal Search Portlets

8.2.1.1 Choosing Search Result Pages

8.2.1.2 Limiting the Number of Search Results on a Page

8.2.1.3 Choosing an Advanced Search Link (Basic/Custom Search Portlets)

8.2.1.4 Choosing an Internet Search Engine (Advanced/Custom Search Portlets)

8.2.2 Configuring Oracle Text Options in OracleAS Portal

8.2.2.1 Enabling and Disabling Oracle Text in OracleAS Portal

8.2.2.2 Setting Oracle Text Search Result Options

8.2.2.3 Setting a Base URL for Oracle Text

8.2.2.4 Configuring Proxy Settings for Oracle Text

8.2.3 Configuring Oracle Ultra Search Options in OracleAS Portal

8.2.3.1 Accessing the Oracle Ultra Search Administration Tool

8.2.3.2 Registering OracleAS Portal as a Content Source

8.2.3.3 Registering the Ultra Search provider with OracleAS Portal

8.3 Oracle Text

8.3.1 Understanding OracleAS Portal Searches with Oracle Text Enabled

8.3.2 Oracle Text Prerequisites

8.3.3 Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.3.1 Oracle Text Index Overview

8.3.3.2 Oracle Text Index Preferences

8.3.3.3 Datastore Procedures

8.3.3.4 Granting CTXAPP Role to the OracleAS Portal Schema

8.3.3.5 Multilingual Functionality (Multilexer)

8.3.3.6 STEM Searching

8.3.4 Creating and Dropping Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.4.1 Creating All Oracle Text Indexes Using ctxcrind.sql

8.3.4.2 Creating a Single Oracle Text Index

8.3.4.3 Dropping All Oracle Text Indexes Using ctxdrind.sql

8.3.4.4 Dropping a Single Oracle Text Index

8.3.5 Maintaining Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.5.1 Synchronizing Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.5.2 Scheduling Index Synchronization

8.3.5.3 Deciding How Often to Synchronize Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.5.4 Synchronizing All the Index Content

8.3.5.5 Optimizing Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.5.6 Scheduling Index Optimization

8.3.5.7 Choosing the Optimization Interval

8.3.6 Indexing and Searching URL Content

8.3.6.1 Relative URLs

8.3.6.2 Unsupported URLs

8.3.6.3 Supported URLs

8.3.6.4 URL Index Proxy Settings

8.3.7 Viewing the Status of Oracle Text Indexes

8.3.8 Monitoring Oracle Text Indexing Operations

8.3.8.1 Using start_log to Monitor Index Operations

8.3.8.2 Using logcrind.sql to Monitor Index Creation

8.3.9 Viewing Indexing Errors

8.3.10 Translating Indexing Errors to Objects in OracleAS Portal

8.3.10.1 Item Indexing Errors

8.3.10.2 Page Indexing Errors

8.3.10.3 Category Index Errors

8.3.10.4 Perspective Indexing Errors

8.3.10.5 Document Index Errors

8.3.10.6 URL Index Errors

8.3.11 Common Indexing Errors

8.3.11.1 Common Document Indexing Errors

8.3.11.2 Common URL Indexing Errors

8.3.12 Handling Indexing Hangs or Crashes

8.3.12.1 Identifying Whether an Index Operation is Hanging

8.3.12.2 Preventing Indexes From Hanging and Crashing

8.3.12.3 Preventing Document Filter Operations from Hanging

8.3.12.4 Running Document Filter Operations Manually

8.3.13 Troubleshooting Oracle Text Installation Problems

8.3.14 Updating Oracle Text Indexes When Upgrading to Oracle Database 10g

8.4 Oracle Ultra Search

8.4.1 Oracle Ultra Search Overview

8.4.1.1 About Oracle Ultra Search

8.4.1.2 About the Oracle Ultra Search Sample Query Applications

8.4.1.3 About the Oracle Ultra Search Administration Tool

8.4.2 Configuring the Oracle Application Server Infrastructure

8.4.3 Configuring the Database for Oracle Ultra Search

8.4.4 Configuring the Oracle Ultra Search Middle-Tier Component

8.4.4.1 Editing the data-sources.xml File

8.4.4.2 Editing the ultrasearch.properties File

8.4.4.3 Restarting the OC4J_Portal Instance

8.4.4.4 Testing the Oracle Ultra Search Administration Tool

8.4.4.5 Testing the Oracle Ultra Search Sample Query Applications

8.4.5 Configuring Remote Crawler Hosts

8.4.6 The Oracle Ultra Search Portlet Sample

8.4.6.1 Searching Public Data

8.4.6.2 Connecting to an Oracle Ultra Search Instance

8.4.6.3 Restrictions

8.4.6.4 Portlet Sample Files

9.1 Setting the Number of Server Processes

9.2 Setting the Number of Idle Processes

9.3 Setting the Number of PPE Fetchers

9.4 Tuning the Oracle HTTP Server

9.5 Generating Performance Reports

9.6 Tuning File System Cache to Improve Caching Performance

10.1 How Does Export and Import Work?

10.2 What are the Most Common Use Cases?

10.2.1 Case 1: Importing/Exporting Between Development to Production Instances

10.2.2 Case 2: Deploying Identical Content Across Multiple Portal Instances

10.3 What Do I Need to Check Before I Begin?

10.3.1 System Requirements

10.3.2 Privileges for Exporting and Importing Your Content

10.3.2.1 Privileges for Exporting Your Content

10.3.2.2 Privileges for Importing Your Content

10.4 How Does Export Work?

10.4.1 Creating Transport Sets

10.4.2 Exporting Your Data

10.4.3 Exporting Large Page Groups

10.5 How Does Import Work?

10.5.1 Running Your Script on Your Target System

10.5.2 Importing Your Data

10.6 How Do I Manage My Transport Sets?

10.6.1 Editing a Transport Set

10.6.2 Browsing Transport Sets

10.7 How Do Objects Behave After Migration?

10.8 What Are the Recommended Best Practices?

10.8.1 Migrating Your Users and Groups

10.8.2 Migrating Your Page Groups and Components

10.8.3 Migrating Your Web Providers

10.8.4 Migrating Your Portal DB Provider Schemas and Components

10.8.4.1 Migrating Your Portal DB Provider Schemas

10.8.4.2 Migrating Your Portal DB Providers and Components

10.8.5 Migrating Your Oracle Reports Components

10.8.6 Migrating Your Search Components

10.8.6.1 Basic and Advanced Search Portlets

10.8.6.2 Custom Search Portlets

10.8.7 Migrating Your External Applications

10.8.7.1 User Populations

10.8.7.2 The Export and Import SSO Utility

10.8.8 Migrating Your Portal Across Databases

11.1 Registering Syndication Portlet Provider

11.2 Configuring Portal for Content Syndication

11.2.1 Build the Syndication Channel Administration Home Page

11.2.2 Setup the Portal Privileges on Destination Folders

11.3 Using Syndication Channel Administration Portlet

11.4 Advanced Configuration Parameters

11.5 Syndication Channel Administration Error Messages

12.1 About the Federated Portal Adapter

12.1.1 Overview

12.1.2 Differences Between Database Providers and Web Providers

12.1.3 Use of the Federated Portal Adapter

12.1.4 Security Issues

12.1.5 Federated Portal Adapter Related Portlet Modifications

12.2 Setting Up the Environment to Use the Federated Portal Adapter

12.2.1 Checking the PlsqlSessionCookieName Value

12.2.2 Federated Portal Adapter User Authentication Using HMAC

12.2.3 Setting the Cookie Domain

12.2.4 Sharing an OracleAS Single Sign-On and an Oracle Internet Directory Server

12.3 Registering a Provider Using the Federated Portal Adapter

12.4 Writing Custom Portlets Using the Federated Portal Adapter

12.4.1 Relative Links

12.4.2 Customization

12.5 Troubleshooting Federated Portal Adapter

13.1 Common Issues

13.1.1 OracleAS Portal is Not Accessible

13.1.2 OracleAS Single Sign-On is Not Accessible

13.1.3 Issues Creating Category/Perspective Pages

13.1.4 Multi-language Support for Help

13.2 Miscellaneous Issues

13.2.1 Remote Web Providers Time Out in a Dynamic DNS Environment

13.2.2 Memory Intense Operations Cause Problems

13.3 Verifying the Portal Dependency Settings File

13.4 Diagnosing OracleAS Portal Problems

13.4.1 Components and Their Diagnostic Output

13.4.1.1 Java Portal Developers Kit

13.4.1.2 mod_plsql

13.4.1.3 Parallel Page Engine

13.4.1.4 Oracle Application Server Portal Developer Kit

13.4.1.5 OracleAS Metadata Repository

13.4.1.6 OracleAS Web Cache

13.5 Using the OracleAS Portal Diagnostics Assistant

13.6 Using Application Server Control Log Viewer

13.7 Troubleshooting Export and Import

13.8 Troubleshooting Search Functionality

13.8.1 Problems If Too Many Page Groups or Search Attributes Selected

13.8.2 Cannot Search PL/SQL Attributes

13.8.3 Troubleshooting Oracle Text Installation Problems

13.9 Troubleshooting Federated Portal Adapter

13.10 OracleAS Portal Errors

A.1 Portal Dependency Settings File Details

A.1.1 Name and Location

A.1.2 Updating the Portal Dependency Settings File

A.1.3 Configuration Elements

A.1.4 Sample Portal Dependency Settings File

A.1.5 Post-Installation Mapping in the Portal Dependency Setting File

A.1.6 Common Configuration Mapping in the Portal Dependency Settings File

A.2 Configuration Tools

A.2.1 Portal Dependency Settings Tool

A.2.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control

B.2.2.3 WEBCACHE Type

B.2.2.4 OHS Type

B.2.2.5 ALL Type

B.2.2.6 DIPREG Type

B.2.2.7 DIPUNREG Type

B.2.3 LANGUAGE

B.2.4 SYSOBJECTS

B.2.5 DEINSTALL

C.1 OracleAS Web Cache Configuration Scripts

C.1.1 Using cachset.sql

C.1.2 Managing the Invalidation Message Processing Job Using cachjsub.sql

C.2 Disabling the IP Check of Cookie Validation

C.3 Using the secupoid.sql Script

C.4 Using the secjsdom.sql Script

C.5 Configuring the Portal Session Cookie

C.5.1 Configuring the Cookie Name

C.5.2 Configuring the Scope of the Cookie

C.5.3 Securing the Cookie

C.6 Managing the Session Cleanup Job

C.7 Timing and Caching Statistics

C.7.1 Portlet Statistics

C.7.1.1 Portlet Timing Information

C.7.1.2 Portlet Caching Information

C.7.2 Page Statistics

C.7.3 Additional Summary Statistics

C.8 Using the cfgiasw Script to Configure Mobile Settings

C.9 Using the ptlinvsw.sql Script to Invalidate Portal Container Pages

D.1 Configuring Parallel Page Engine Parameters

D.1.1 Setting PPE Configuration Parameters

D.1.2 Parallel Page Engine Configuration Settings

E.1 Oracle HTTP Server Configuration File (httpd.conf)

E.2 Oracle Database Connection File (tnsnames.ora)

E.3 Web Cache Configuration Files

E.4 OracleAS Single Sign-On Configuration Table

E.5 OracleAS Single Sign-On's Partner Application Table

E.6 Local HOSTS File

E.7 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

F.1 Using the JavaServer Page Configuration File

F.1.1 Contents of Your JavaServer Page Configuration File

F.1.1.1 The <jps> Tag

F.1.1.2 The <portal> Tag

F.1.1.3 The <database> Tag

F.1.1.4 The <url> Tag

F.1.1.5 The <cookie> Tag

F.1.1.6 The <pageGroups> Tag

F.1.1.7 The <pageGroup> Tag

F.1.2 Example JavaServer Page Configuration File

F.1.3 Location of Your JavaServer Page Configuration File

F.1.4 External JavaServer Page Login

F.2 Setting Up a JAZN File for External Communication

F.2.1 Setting Up mod_osso

F.2.1.1 Register Oracle HTTP Server with OracleAS Single Sign-On Server

F.2.1.2 Create a Directory File

F.2.1.3 Run Oracle HTTP osso.conf

F.2.1.4 Remove Comments from the httpd.conf File

F.2.1.5 Restart the Oracle HTTP Server

F.2.2 Setting Up JAZN with LDAP

G.1 Procedures

G.1.1 add_attribute_section

G.1.2 create_index

G.1.3 create_missing_indexes

G.1.4 create_prefs

G.1.5 createindex

G.1.6 drop_all_indexes

G.1.7 drop_index

G.1.8 drop_invalid_indexes

G.1.13 touch_index(p_indexes wwsbr_array)

G.1.14 touch_index

G.2 Constants

G.2.1 Index Name Constants

G.2.2 URL Unsuitable for Indexing Constant

G.3 Exceptions

H.1 When to Use TEXTTEST

H.2 Before Running TEXTTEST

H.3 Running TEXTTEST

H.4 Understanding TEXTTEST Results

H.5 Configuring TEXTTEST

H.5.1 Configuring Document Tests

H.5.2 Configuring URL Tests

H.5.3 URL Tests and Proxies

H.5.4 Specifying Proxies for Use with URL Indexing Tests

H.6 Descriptions of TEXTTEST Tests

H.6.1 Connect to Database as User sys

H.6.2 Create textcase Schema

H.6.3 Grant DBA Role to textcase Schema

H.6.4 Grant CTXAPP Role to textcase Schema

H.6.5 Disconnect From sys

H.6.6 Connect to textcase Schema

H.6.7 Create textcase Item Related Tables

H.6.8 Populate Item Tables

H.6.9 Create Document Table

H.6.10 Populate Document Table

H.6.11 Create URL Table

H.6.12 Populate URL Table

H.6.13 Create Oracle Text Datastore Procedure

H.6.14 Create Oracle Text Preferences

H.6.15 Create Lexer Preferences

H.6.16 Create Section Group and Zone Sections

H.6.17 Create Oracle Text Item Index

H.6.18 Create Oracle Text Document Index

H.6.19 Create Oracle Text URL Index

H.6.20 Touch All Item Content So That Pending

H.6.21 Touch All Document Content So That Pending

H.6.22 Touch All URL Content So That Pending

H.6.23 Synchronize Item Index

H.6.24 Synchronize Document Index

H.6.25 Synchronize URL Index

H.6.26 Drop Datastore Procedure from ctxsys

H.6.27 Disconnect From textcase Schema

H.6.28 Connect As User sys

H.6.29 Drop textcase Schema

H.6.30 Disconnect From Database

I.1 Configuring the Web Clipping Repository

I.2 Configuring HTTP or HTTPS Proxy Settings

I.2.1 Configuring Proxy Settings Using the Web Clipping Provider Test Page

I.2.2 Setting Proxy Settings Manually

I.2.3 Restricting Users from Clipping Content from Unauthorized External Web Sites

I.3 Configuring Caching

I.3.1 Configuring Caching Using the Web Clipping Provider Test Page

I.3.2 Configuring Web Cache Manually

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Preface

1 Understanding the OracleAS Portal Architecture

2 Planning Your Portal

3 Installing OracleAS Portal

4 Performing Basic Configuration and Administration

5 Performing Advanced Configuration

6 Securing OracleAS Portal

7 Monitoring and Administering OracleAS Portal

8 Configuring the Search Features in OracleAS Portal

9 Tuning Performance in OracleAS Portal

10 Exporting and Importing Content

11 Syndicating Content Into OracleAS Portal

12 Using the Federated Portal Adapter

13 Troubleshooting OracleAS Portal

A Using the Portal Dependency Settings File

B Using the OracleAS Portal Configuration Assistant Command Line Utility

C Using OracleAS Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts

D Configuring the Parallel Page Engine

E Using Oracle Application Server Configuration Files

F Integrating JavaServer Pages with OracleAS Portal

G Using the wwv_context APIs

H Using TEXTTEST to Check Oracle Text Installation

I Administering Web Clipping

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