Welcome to the Oracle Web Server Configure Extended Parameters form.
On this form are listed all of the parameters with which you can customize
your Oracle Web Server. At the bottom of the page, you are presented
with three buttons : Copy Server, Modify Server,
Delete Server.
Selecting the Copy Server button requires that you first change
the Port Number listed in the
Network Parameters section on
this page. The entire configuration from this page will be submitted as
a new Oracle Web Server, leaving the existing Web Server intact.
Selecting the Modify Server button causes the configuration
parameters from this page to rewrite the existing Web Server configuration.
Selecting the Delete Server button allows you to delete the
configuration set-up for this Oracle Web Server.
Oracle Web Server Configuration Parameters
The configuration parameters of the Oracle Web Server are
divided into nine categories:
You must set a host name which is used as the name for
your Oracle Web Server. This is typically either the actual
machine name, or something like "www.hostname".
Please enter a value for the Host Name:
The Host Address is the Internet adress on which your Oracle Web
Server is willing to accept connections. Specifying ANY indicates
the Server accepts connections arriving on any of its available
internet addresses.
Please enter a value for the Host Address:
Your Oracle Web Server must listen on one of the network
ports for service requests. The range of available ports is from
0 to 65535, with the ports numbered less than 1024 requiring superuser
privileges. For the Beta version of the Oracle Web Server,
only ports greater than or equal to 1024 are available.
Please enter a value for the Port Number:
You may limit the number of simultaneous connections to your
Oracle Web Server. After the maximum count is reached, the
Web Server ignores any new requests. The highest this value can
be set is 300.
Please enter a value for the Max Connect Count:
DNS Resolution indicates whether and when your Oracle Web Server
will resolve hostnames using the Domain Name Service(DNS). You can have the
server ALWAYS resolve the name, NEVER resolve the name, be LAZY and
only resolve the name on demand, or if set to LAZY_WITH_CGI, resolve
the name only on demand for CGI applications.
Please select the value for DNS Resolution:
The Server PID is a one-line file which contains the
Oracle Web Server's current process identifier.
This is useful for useful for stopping or sending a signal to
your Web Server.
Please select the value for Server PID file:
Log File Parameters
The Oracle Web Server writes informative tracing and error
message to the Log Info File and to the
Log Error File respectively. They have default locations
and names, but can be placed anywhere on your machine.
Please enter a value for the Log File Directory :
Please enter the value for the Info File Name:
Please enter the value for the Error File Name:
Server Parameters
The Initial File denotes the default file in a
directory that the Oracle Web Server accessed when client
requests do not specify a file name.
For example, if Initial File is set to
index.html, then a request for
http://myhost/mydir
will return the file http://myhost/mydir/index.html.
Please enter a value for the Initial File:
The User Directory denotes the subdirectory within a
user's home directory which the Oracle Web Server searches
when requests of the form [hostname]/~username
are submitted.
For example, if User Directory is set to
public_html, then a request for
http://myhost/~username/index.html
will return the file http://myhost/~username/public_html/index.html
Please enter a value for the User Directory:
The User Directory Initial File is the file
in a user's directory which is accesses when client
requests do not specify a file name.
For example, if public_html is the User Directory
specified above, and index.html is the
User Directory Initial File,
then a request for http://myhost/~username/
will cause the Web Server to return the file
http://myhost/~username/public_html/index.html
Please enter a value for the User Directory Initial File:
The Default MIME Type is the MIME type that the Web Server
will use if it does not support the MIME type specified in a URL's file name.
Please enter a value for the Default MIME Type:
The Default Character Set is the character set type that
the server will use if it does not recongize the language requested in the
URL's file extension.
(See the Language Extensions section below for more information).
Please enter a value for the Default Character Set:
The Preferred Language is the language that the Web Server
"prefer" if given a file name extension with a choice of languages.
(See the Language Extensions section below for more information).
Please enter a value for the Preferred Language:
The Image Map parameter specifies the suffix that the
Oracle Web Server uses to recognize image map files.
Please enter a value for the Image Map:
Secure Information Parameters
This parameter valid only for UNIX-based machines.
The User ID specifies the user (or user identification
number) whose privileges the server will acquire when it is run.
To acquire these privileges, the server executable must be owned by this user
or by root with its "user sticky bit" set.
Please enter a value for the User ID:
This parameter valid only for UNIX-based machines.
The Group ID specifies the group (or group identification
number) whose privileges the server will acquire when it is run.
To acquire these privileges, the server executable must be owned by this group
or by root with its "group sticky bit" set.
Please enter a value for the Group ID:
Directory Mappings
The Directory Mappings
specify the translation of directories from
the file system into the server's virtual file system. Each line
contains one mapping as well as a flag indicating whether directory
contains CGI or other scripts (C), whether subdirectories should
be mapped recursively (R), or whether the subdirectories should not
be mapped recursively (N).
The ordering of the directory mappings is important.
The parameters in this section must be ordered such that the
parent virtual directories are listed before subsequent virtual
subdirectories. Hence, the first directory mapping in this
section must reference the virtual root directory (or "/").
File-System Directory R/N/C Virtual Directory
File Cache Definitions
The FileCache section lists files that will be kept
open for the life of the running server. Files can be specified exactly,
specified by using the wildcard, '*', or by specifying an entire directory.
Please remember to specify virtual filenames and directories, not actual ones.
Virtual File/Directory
Language Extensions
The Language Extensions specify the file name extensions
which the server will recognize and which languages and character sets
those extensions map to. One or more file extensions can be specified
for each language type and character set.
Three technical notes about the values below:
- Extensions are case-sensitive.
- Language identifiers are described in RFC 1766.
- Character sets are described in RFC 1521.
Language Type Character Set File Extension(s)
MIME Types
The Mime Types (Multimedia Internet Mail Extension) section
allows you to specify the mapping of MIME types to
corresponding file name extensions. Extensions are case-sensitive.
Mime Type File Extension(s)
Encoding Extensions
The Encoding Extensions specify the encoding types
known to the Web Server and the corresponding file name extensions.
Extensions are case sensitive.
Encoding File Extension(s)
Security
There are four different forms of security, which the
Oracle Web Server provides. They are:
After providing information on the privileged users by selecting
one of the security methods above, you must specify which files are
covered by which method by selecting the
Select this Help link for
complete documentation of the Oracle Web Server security.
Basic
User Name Password
Group Name User(s)
Realms Group(s)
Digest
User Name Password
Group Name User(s)
Realm Group(s)
IP
IP Group IP Address(es)
Domain
Domain Group Domain Name(s)
Protection Section
Files Basic/Digest Realm &/| IP/Domain Group
