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Oracle9
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AS Portal Configuration Guide
Release 2 (9.0.2)
Part Number A90852-02
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1 Verifying Requirements
1.1 System Requirements
1.1.1 Oracle Databases
1.1.1.1 Database System resource requirements
1.1.2 Oracle Home
1.1.3 Web Browsers
1.1.3.1 Configuring Browser Settings
1.1.3.2 Cache Settings
1.1.3.3 Image Settings
1.1.4 Tablespace Requirements
1.1.5 init.ora Settings
1.1.6 Terminal Settings
1.1.7 Oracle Text Requirements
1.1.8 Unix Shell Settings
2 Post-installation Tasks
2.1 Oracle9
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AS Portal Default Schemas
2.2 Oracle9
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AS Portal Default Accounts
2.3 Oracle9
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AS Portal Default Groups
2.4 Accessing Oracle9
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AS Portal in Your Browser
2.4.1 Simplifying the Full URL of an Oracle9
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AS Portal Instance
2.5 Configuration Steps for Backward Compatibility
2.6 Configuring Self-registration
2.7 Configuring Directory Synchronization
2.7.1 Setting up a Subscription Profile using oidprovtool
2.8 SSL Configuration
2.8.1 Securing Ports to Use Certificates and HTTPS
2.9 Enabling Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
2.9.1 Setting Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server Query Path URL
2.9.2 Adding SSO Enabler Configuration Entries for HTTPS Mode
2.9.3 Configuring HTTPS with Virtual Hosts
2.9.3.1 SSL Protection Pages
2.10 Configuring Oracle9
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AS Portal Security
2.11 Configuring the Oracle Reports Security Portlet
2.12 Configuring WebDAV support for Oracle9
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AS Portal Access
3 Configuring Oracle9
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AS Portal using OPCA
3.1 The Oracle9
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AS Portal Configuration Assistant (OPCA)
3.1.1 OPCA and the Oracle9
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Application Server Installation
3.1.2 Using OPCA in Stand-alone mode
3.2 OPCA Modes
3.2.1 PORTAL OPCA Mode
3.2.2 MIDTIER OPCA Mode
3.2.3 SSO OPCA Mode
3.2.4 SSOPARTNERCONFIG OPCA Mode
3.2.5 LANGUAGE OPCA Mode
3.2.6 ALL OPCA Mode
3.2.7 SYSOBJECTS OPCA Mode
4 Using the PL/SQL HTTP Adapter
4.1 About the PL/SQL HTTP Adapter
4.1.1 Overview
4.1.2 Differences between Database Providers and Web Providers
4.1.3 Use of the PL/SQL HTTP Adapter
4.1.4 Security Issues
4.1.5 PL/SQL HTTP Adapter related Portlet modifications
4.2 Setting up the Environment to use the PL/SQL HTTP Adapter
4.2.1 Updating the DAD Name
4.2.2 PL/SQL HTTP Adapter User Authentication using HMAC
4.2.2.1 Setting the HMAC keys
4.2.3 Setting the Cookie Domain
4.2.4 Sharing an Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server and an OID Server
4.3 Registering A Provider Using The PL/SQL HTTP Adapter
4.4 Writing Custom Portlets using The PL/SQL Http Adapter
4.4.1 Relative Links
4.4.2 Customization
5 Deploying Web Portals
5.1 Oracle9
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AS Portal architecture overview
5.1.1 Assembling Oracle9
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AS Portal pages
5.2 Single machine configuration
5.3 How much hardware and software?
5.4 Deploying larger Web portals
5.4.1 Separating the middle-tier from the database
5.4.2 Installing Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server and OID separately
5.4.3 Providing databases for SSO and OID
5.4.4 Adding middle-tier instances
5.5 Getting the most out of your configuration
5.5.1 Load balancing
5.5.2 Failover
5.5.3 Scalability
5.5.4 Caching
5.5.4.1 Configuring Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
5.5.4.2 Configuring Oracle9
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AS Portal Cache
5.6 Security
5.6.1 Authenticating users
5.6.2 Securing content
5.7 Tuning performance
5.7.1 Setting the number of server processes
5.7.2 Setting the number of idle processes
5.7.3 Setting the number of PPE fetchers
6 Advanced Oracle9
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AS Portal Configuration
6.1 Configuring Virtual Hosts
6.2 Parallel Page Engine Configuration
6.2.1 Configuring Parallel Page Engine Parameters
6.2.1.1 Setting PPE Configuration Parameters
6.2.1.2 Parallel Page Engine Configuration Settings
6.3 Configuring Reverse Proxy Servers Over the Internet
6.3.1 Configuring the Oracle HTTP Server
6.3.2 Resolving Domain Names
6.4 Configuring Load Balancing Routers
6.4.1 Additional Configuration Related to Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Invalidation
6.5 Setting up Two Sites Using the Same Infrastructure
6.6 Configuring Multiple Middle-Tiers to Use the Same Infrastructure
6.7 Tuning the Oracle HTTP Server
6.7.1 Configuring the MaxClient Setting
6.8 Configuring Oracle9
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AS Portal to Work with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
6.8.1 Evaluating the Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Logs
6.8.2 Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Configuration Scripts
6.8.3 Troubleshooting the Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Configuration
6.8.4 Accessing the Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Administration Portlet
6.8.5 Tuning Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
6.8.6 Disabling Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
6.8.7 Shutting down Oracle9
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AS Web Cache completely
6.8.8 Associating Multiple Middle-Tiers to a Single Infrastructure
7 Configuring the Search Features in Oracle9
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AS Portal
7.1 New Search Features
7.2 Prerequisites
7.3 Searching in Oracle9
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AS Portal
7.3.1 Basic Search
7.3.2 Advanced Search
7.3.3 Custom Search
7.3.4 STEM Searching
7.3.5 Oracle Text
7.3.6 Viewing Oracle Text Search Results
7.4 Oracle Text Performance
7.4.1 Query Considerations
7.4.2 Indexing Considerations
7.4.3 Update Considerations
7.5 Setting up Oracle Text Searching
7.5.1 Step 1: Set up the Global Page Settings
7.5.2 Step 2: Creating the Oracle Text Indexes
7.5.3 Step 3: Enable and Configure Oracle9
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AS Portal Text Searching
7.5.4 Step 4: Maintain an Oracle9
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AS Portal Text Index
7.5.4.1 Synchronizing Oracle9
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AS Portal Text Indexes
7.5.4.2 Optimizing the Oracle Text Indexes
7.5.4.3 Stopping the Index Maintenance
7.6 Dropping an Oracle Text Index
7.7 Multilingual Functionality (Multilexer)
7.8 Oracle Text-related Procedures Created in Oracle9
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AS Portal
7.9 Oracle Ultra Search
7.9.1 Oracle Ultra Search Overview
7.9.1.1 About Oracle Ultra Search
7.9.1.2 About the Oracle Ultra Search Sample Query Applications
7.9.1.3 About the Oracle Ultra Search Administration Tool
7.9.2 Configuring the Oracle9
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Application Server Infrastructure
7.9.3 Configuring the Oracle9
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database for Oracle Ultra Search
7.9.4 Configuring the Oracle Ultra Search Middle Tier Component
7.9.5 Configuring Remote Crawler Hosts
7.9.6 The Oracle Ultra Search Portlet Sample
8 Troubleshooting Oracle9
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AS Portal
8.1 Oracle9
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AS Web Cache related issues
8.2 Miscellaneous Issues
A Oracle9
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Application Server Configuration Files
A.1 Overview
A.1.1 Oracle HTTP Server Configuration File (httpd.conf)
A.1.2 Oracle Database Connection File (tnsnames.ora)
A.1.3 Web Cache Config files.
A.1.4 Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server Configuration Table
A.1.5 Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server's Partner Application Table
A.1.6 Local HOSTS File
A.1.7 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
B Oracle9
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AS Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts
B.1 Associating Oracle9
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AS Portal with an Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On Server
B.2 Oracle9
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AS Web Cache configuration scripts
B.2.1 Using cachseed.sql
B.2.2 Using cachset.sql
B.2.3 Managing the Invalidation Message Processing Job Using cachjsub.sql
B.3 Using oidprovtool to Create a Subscription Profile
B.4 Disabling the IP Check of Cookie Validation
B.5 Using the secupoid.sql script
B.5.1 Running the secupoid.sql script
B.6 Using the secjsdom.sql script
B.7 Modifying the Scope of the Portal Session Cookie
B.8 Managing the Session Cleanup Job
B.9 Timing and Caching Statistics
B.9.1 Portlet Statistics
B.9.1.1 Portlet Timing information
B.9.1.2 Portlet Caching information
B.9.2 Page Statistics
B.9.3 Additional Summary Statistics
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