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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: A DBA looks at OAS | IAS vs. Locally-built Apache
This is Oracle9i Application Server Version 1.0.2.2.3a for NT.
So, I'm guessing this is iAS. I have a hard enough time keeping
up with Oracle marketing's changing the names/version of Oracle Net,
parallel server, and MTS every opportunity they get!!
RF
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
Oracle Database Architect
CSX Midtier Database Administration
Author
Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct 2002)
Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press)
Mastering Oracle8i (Sybex)
Clark Griswold: Eddie, has anyone ever told you that you're bad luck? Cousin Eddie: Those were my mother's dying words. But I guess if your body's covered in third degree burns, and your foot's caught in a bear trap, you tend to start talkin' crazy.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
It really OAS and not iAS? If it is, you need to upgrade your software. There is a published exploit against the version of Apache used by Oracle's latest iAS release. Oracle has released a patch which stops the exploit
I have built Oracle web servers for years, but I am now of the mind that these things should not be built by DBA's but by webmasters.
I am undecided whether to one should go with iAS or construct your own with Apache. The mod_plsql module for instance was not created by Oracle. It and things such as forms server and reports server will run against such a construction.
However, we were advised last week that the Windows NT machines will be converted to XP this year. As a result, I started to look at the 9i Internet Developer Suite. About every third line is a statement to the effect that the 9i database, 9 iAS, and 9 iDS are made to work together. I haven't figured out what one is giving up if one builds their own web server and also installs components for the 9 iAS distribution. Is it just convenience?
One reason for giving up the convenience is security. An exploit is discovered and possibly published. Apache fixes the problem. If I have built my own I can get the patch from Apache and rebuild the web server. If I'm wedded to iAS I need to wait for Oracle to incorporate the patch into its offering. This could be a matter days to over a week. However weighing-in on the 9 iAS side is the ease of installing a fix. The Apache fix for the aforementioned problem required a rebuild; you need someone wise in the ways of make files and such. The 9 iAS fix was a simple file replacement.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu
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Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:18 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Folks,
I'm a DBA who is really an old developer at heart. I know a little Java, a
little Asp
(enough, as they say, to be really dangerous!), I used to do C code that now
makes
my head swim to look at. (I think to myself, what the devil was I doing??)
Anyway, I've finally found some time and a machine here at work to start
playing with
OAS just to see what it's all about. Anyone have any good suggestions with
regards
to:
Optimistically hopeful that this will all just go really smooth and I'll
have a cool
web page that I can bring up soon!
RF
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
Oracle Database Architect
CSX Midtier Database Administration
Author
Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct 2002)
Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press)
Mastering Oracle8i (Sybex)
Clark Griswold: Eddie, has anyone ever told you that you're bad luck? Cousin Eddie: Those were my mother's dying words. But I guess if your body's covered in third degree burns, and your foot's caught in a bear trap, you tend to start talkin' crazy.
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