Hi Turhan, Welcome to the Zope community! Turhan Arun writes:
Now my problem is as follows I have to use Zope Application Server on SUN iPlanet Web Server Oracle 8.1.6 Database server Would you help me about configuring these? I am having problems and you are my only source.
You have 2 subproblems: interfacing Zope with iPlanet and interfacing Zope with Oracle 8.1.6. 1. Unfortunately, I do not know iPlanet. You may search "zope.org" for "iPlanet" (maybe, you find a HowTo). There is also a searchable archive of this mailing list at NIP (to be found via "zope.org -> Resources -> Mailing Lists"). If you are unlucky, you must explore a bit yourself. "doc/WEBSERVERS.txt" (a file in the Zope distribution) is a good starting point. Although, it mainly speaks about Apache (and does not mention iPlanet), the "pcgi" connection will work with any webserver that supports CGI. It will work with "iPlanet". There might be some problems with the propagation of authentication information. You may decide to let iPlanet do all authentication and let Zope unprotected or you might need to learn how to configure iPlanet to pass authentication information. You may want to screen the iPlanet documentation, whether it supports proxy mode. In this mode, iPlanet would relay (some) requests to another web server (Zope in your case). This would be more efficient than "pcgi". 2. We use Zope with Oracle 8.1.6. We use DC's DCOracle and ZOracleDA (latest version! it has a beta in its version number!). It works satisfactory with the exception of LOB support. DC is working on improvements but the project is not externally funded, progress seems to be slow. Some days ago, someone in the list has reported a package that can be used to work around the LOB restrictions (if you know the LOB type). Search the list archive to locate the article (search for "DCOracle and BLOB"). Dieter