Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
You can download the OHS from all sorts of locations on the Oracle OTN (Oracle Technology
Network) website, depending on your exact database release. For our purposes, I am using this
(currently working!) URL:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html
If you cannot find it from that location, then the main OTN download page should help:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.html
Note that, depending on which release you are looking for, the OHS Apache download is sometimes
distributed in the companion CD for the database download.
From that page you should be able to find the download for the Oracle HTTP Server called
Oracle
HTTP Server (Apache 2.0) (10.1.3.3.0) for Linux x86
. Please note, however, that at the time of this
writing I've found that the downloads of files on OTN are constantly moving and being reorganized, so
by the time you read this it may be in a different location (in which case, my first resort would be to use
Google—or your preferred search engine—to search for the download and get a direct link to the
location).
Once you have downloaded the file to your (Linux!) server you can unzip it and begin the
installation, as shown in Listing 1-1.
Listing 1-1.
OHS Installation File Downloaded and Unzipped
[ohs@localhost downloads]$ ls -al
total 326972
drwxrwxr-x 6 ohs ohs 4096 Feb 12 10:36 .
drwx------ 4 ohs ohs 4096 Feb 12 10:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 ohs ohs 4096 Apr 20 2007 access
-rw-r--r-- 1 ohs ohs 334457994 Feb 12 10:28 as 101330 apache2 lnx.zip
drwxr-xr-x 6 ohs ohs 4096 Apr 20 2007 doc
drwxr-xr-x 5 ohs ohs 4096 Apr 20 2007 install
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ohs ohs 1280 Apr 20 2007 runInstaller
drwxr-xr-x 9 ohs ohs 4096 May 2 2007 stage
The installation process is well documented and common to many of the pieces of Oracle software;
usually you just need to configure any necessary operating system parameters and configure your
environment (for example setting
ORACLE HOME
). Rather than reproduce all that information here, it's
(always!) best to refer to the installation document for the exact version you downloaded, since some of
the requirements (and parameter settings) do vary from release to release.
Once you have executed the
runInstaller
script, the Installation wizard should start up, as shown in
Figure 1-3.
