Thanks for the reply... I was planning to install Zope on the database server, compile DCOracle there, and then just copy the *.so files to the webservers, where the real Zope install is. Do you need the oracle client libraries on the webservers to make the connection or are the two shared libraries that you compile, (oci_.so and Buffer.so) enough to make the connection to the web server? Thanks for your help, Aaron Bostick Network Architect Exodus Professional Services -----Original Message----- From: Satheesh Babu [mailto:vsbabu@csoft.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:29 PM To: Aaron Bostick; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] ZOracleDA Hi, If you are running Zope on 1. Linux: You need to install Oracle client libraries to compile ZOracleDA. As far as I know, Oracle does not give any easy way to install only the clients. So, if you've enough disk space, install Oracle with the minimum DB options, and compile ZOracleDA. You DON'T NEED to run Oracle DB on your Zope machine, to have zope connect to your actual DB machine. 2. Win NT/2000/98 You can install only the client libraries from the Oracle CD, get ZOracleDA compiled and run Zope. I've used it both ways. Somewhere on the net there was a tarred version of client-only-oracle-4-linux. Check freshmeat.net and gnome.org for some GTK apps for accessing Oracle. It was there in the homepage for that suite of apps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Bostick <Aaron.Bostick@exodus.net> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:45 PM Subject: [Zope] ZOracleDA

Zope list members,

I have been developing a zope site with oracle on linux as a backend. Currently, I run both zope and oracle on the same machine using the ZOracleDA for connectivity. However, for production, I plan to seperate the tiers and run zope and and oracle on different servers. From looking at the build instructions for the DCOracle, it seems as though it will only work when the web server and database server are on the same filesystem/in the same memory space.

Is there a way to have my zope server talk to a remote (across the network somewhere) database server? Do I have to move to something like ODBC for this?

Thanks for your help! Aaron Bostick Network Architect Exodus Professional Services

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