1 Introduction
This chapter will help you quickly
configure and test Forms Server. It is intended
for users who prefer to use the mainly
automatic configuration process available
through Oracle Installer.
2 About Oracle Installer
Oracle Installer provides users with a way
to install Forms Server and all of its
options in an easy, efficient manner. With
Oracle Installer, users can run applications
right away.
Oracle Installer does most of the
configuration steps automatically as part of the
installation. There are various default
installs available. Users can use Oracle
Installer to install Forms Server on a
single machine or multiple machines that will
use load balancing. In practice, a few
manual steps may still be required, but the
user is told what to do in a
“Configuration Instructions” file that is generated by the
installation process.
3 Using Oracle Installer
to Configure the Forms Server
This section aims to get you up and
running as quickly as possible. The steps
described in this section allow you to
configure the Forms Server with the most
basic options. We will tell you how to
test your installation after installing the
Forms Server and the WebDB Listener on a
single machine.
3.1 Starting the Oracle
Installer
Before you run the Oracle Installer, make
sure you have administrative privileges
on the Windows NT workstation that you are
installing Forms Server. To run Oracle
Installer, follow these steps:
1. Shut down any active Windows applications.
2. Choose Start Run to display the Run
dialog.
3. In the Run dialog box, type the following
(where D: is your CD-ROM drive
letter):
D:\SETUP.EXE
4. Click OK to start the Oracle
Installer.
Before the installation begins, two dialog
boxes are displayed:
n In the Oracle
Installation Settings dialog box, enter your company name and the
path for the Oracle Home directory. We
recommend that you keep the default
setting.
n In the
Language dialog box, select the language in which you wish to run
Forms Server.
3.2 Installing Forms
Server
To install Forms Server on a single
machine, with the WebDB Listener and all
default values, follow these steps:
1. Click Oracle Forms Server.
This option installs Forms Server.
2. Click Typical.
This option gives you an automatic
installation of the product’s components.
3. Click Forms Server for Web deployment.
This option installs and configures the
necessary components to run Oracle
Forms applications as Web applications on
one or more server machines. You
will be given options to make this
installation a single-machine configuration or
part of a multiple-machine configuration
using load balancing.
4. Click single machine configuration.
Select this option if you are installing
Forms Server on just one machine.
5. Click use Oracle WebDB listener.
Choose this option if you want the WebDB
Listener to be installed and
configured for you.
6. Click Yes to create and start
services.
Components which you have selected need to
be started up before they can be
used.
7. Click OK to accept the WebDB
Listener defaults.
This accepts defaults for the Host Name
and WebDB Listener Port number.
8. Click OK to accept the directory
where you want Oracle Forms installed.
9. Click OK to accept the default
values for the Forms Server parameters.
10. Click OK to accept the directory where
you want Oracle JInitiator installed.
3.3 What Oracle
Installer Does for You
Oracle Installer will automatically
analyze the dependencies on your machine and
then configure the Forms Server based on
the options you chose.
Oracle Installer produces a configuration
instructions file at the end of the install
that you can view to find out what
settings were created for you. You can print out
the Configuration Instructions file and
complete the configuration actions as
described after the installation process
is complete.
4 Testing Your
Configuration After the Install
Now that your server environment has been
configured, you can test your
installation and configuration.
4.1 Shortcut to the Web
Form Tester
A shortcut to run a standard test form was
created for you in the Forms Server
program group. The shortcut’s name is
"Run Form on the Web." The target for the
shortcut is
C:\ORANT\tools\web60\html\runform.htm. You can place the
shortcut onto your desktop for future
testing.
4.2 Running the Web Form
Tester
To test your installation and
configuration, you can run a test form through your
Web browser by clicking on the shortcut or
clicking Start Programs Oracle
Forms 6i Run a Form on the Web.
The Web Form Tester HTML file,
runform.htm, displays in your Web browser. To
immediately test your installation without
entering any additional information into
the Web Form Tester:
1. Click Run Form to display the
default test form, test.fmx, in another Web
browser.
2. Click OK after the Web browser
displays the test form .
Note: You will need to install JInitiator as a
plug-in before you can view the default test form. If
JInitiator is not installed on your
machine, you need to follow the plug-in download instructions
4.3 Testing Other Forms
on the Web Form Tester
You can test other forms with the Web Form
Tester by entering the name of the form
in the Form field.
The Web Form Tester contains the following
fields:
Runform parameters
n Form: Name of the form to be tested (test.fmx)
n Userid: User ID for login (user/password@connect_string)
n Other
Parameters: Additional
form parameters (useSDI=yes)
n Look and
Feel: (Oracle or Generic)
n Color
scheme: (teal, red,
khaki, blue, olive purple)
Web listener (HTTPD) details
What’s Next
n Web host: Machine on which your HTTP listener is
running
(servername.domain.com)
n Web port: Port number for your HTTP listener (80)
4.4 Copying the URL
Once your test form is displayed in your
Web browser, you can add the URL link
that is generated by the test form to your
own Web site as a link. From that link,
users can run the form.
Copy the URL from the Web browser’s
Location field (in Netscape Navigator) or
Address field (in MS Internet Explorer)
and paste it into the Web page from which
you want users to be able to run your
form.