Defining a WebFOCUS Application Under the Oracle Application Server

How to:

The following section describes how to define a WebFOCUS application under the Oracle application server.

Note: You must define a WebFOCUS application under the Oracle application server if you are not deploying WebFOCUS using New Atlanta ServletExec 4.2.


Top of page

x
Procedure: How to Start and Stop the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site

Before you can define the WebFOCUS application, you must start the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web site. The Web site is automatically started after you install the application server. You must start it manually after each system reboot, or create a script to automatically start it during the system boot sequence.

Note: The following procedure assumes that Oracle10gAS was installed using default port numbers.

  1. Enter the commands in the following table to start, stop, or verify the status of the Enterprise Manager Web site:

    Operation

    Command

    Starting the Enterprise Manager Web Site

    emctl start

    Stopping the Enterprise Manager Web Site

    emctl stop

    Verifying the status of the Enterprise Manager Web Site

    emctl status

    The emctl command is available in the ORACLE_HOME/bin directory after you install Oracle10gAS.

  2. Verify whether the Enterprise Manager Web site has started by pointing your browser to the following URL
    http://hostname:1810

    where:

    hostname

    Is the machine where Oracle10gAS is installed.

    The following screen opens.



x
Procedure: How to Deploy the WebFOCUS.WAR File

Perform the following steps to deploy the webfocus.war file:

  1. From the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site, click OC4J_home from the System Components list.

    The following screen opens.

  2. Click the Deploy WAR file button.

    The following screen opens.

  3. In the Web Application field, click the Browse and select the webfocus.war file located in the following directory:
    drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS77\webapps

    where:

    drive

    Is the location where WebFOCUS is installed.

  4. In the Application Name field, enter ibi_apps.
  5. In the Map to URL field, enter /ibi_apps.
  6. Click the Deploy button.
  7. Access the dashboard by entering the following URL:
    http://hostname:7777/ibi_apps/bid

Top of page

x
Procedure: How to Configure the Apache Web Server

Perform the following steps to make sure your Oracle HTTP server is configured to use the ibi_html and ibi_bid aliases:

  1. Modify the httpd.conf file, which is located in the Apache configuration directory
    drive:\ora_home\APACHE\Apache\conf

    where:

    ora_home

    Is the location where the Apache Web server is installed.

  2. Locate the following section:
    <IfModule mod_alias.c>
        #
    #Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the # server 
    #will require it to be present in the URL.  So "/icons" isn't aliased 
    #in this example, only "/icons/"..
        #
        Alias /jservdocs/ "drive:\ORACLE\ora10gas\Apache/Jserv/docs/"
        Alias /soapdocs/ "drive:\ORACLE\ora10gas/soap/"
        Alias /icons/ "drive:\ORACLE\ora10gas\Apache/Apache/icons/"
  3. Add the following aliases after the Alias /icons/ line:
    Alias /ibi_html/   "drive:\ibi\WebFOCUSxxx\ibi_html/"
    Alias /ibi_bid/   "drive:\ibi\WebFOCUSxxx\worp/"

    where:

    drive

    Is the location where WebFOCUS is installed.

    xxx

    Is the version and release number for WebFOCUS.

  4. Restart the Apache Web Server.

WebFOCUS