9i only for X.2 Server ?

Question

The documentation says that Oracle is only for OSX Server ... but can I install it on MacOS X Client ?

Answer 1

Okay I don't want to risk being sued by Oracle so I'll explain what to do rather than provide any downloads. Follow the Release notes as far as making drectories go etc. I'm sure there are much smarter ways of doing this but then I'm a Mac user and not a very bright one at that.
sudo su -
mkdir /Users/orcale
mkdir /Users/oracle/9iR2Now move the orahome directory into /Users/oracle/9iR2
I think that some of the binaries reference this path so i don't think there's a choice (Thanks!!).
Now rather than messing up your login screen etc add the oracle user by copy and pasting the following into a file, save it myscript.sh and chmod a+x it. To see the results you can use netinfo manager.
You'll be prompted for a password. Oracle recommend using 'oracle' as the password.
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /Users/oracle
niutil -create . /users/oracle
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle uid 20
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle name oracle
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle realname "Oracle Service"
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle gid 20
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle shell /bin/bash
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle change 0
niutil -createprop . /users/oracle home /Users/oracle
echo "enter password for Oracle"
passwd oracle
The set_grp script provided by oracle works just fine so use that to make the dba group (Good work guys).
cd /User/oracle/9iR2/orahome/DBCreate/
chmod a+x set_grp
./set_grpAgain you can check the results in netinfo manager.
Now.. (make sure you're still root)
cd /User
chown -R oracle oracle/
chgrp -R dba oracle/Now we need a script to start and stop the oracle service.
mkdir /Library/StartUpItems/Oracle
touch /Library/StartUpItems/Oracle/Oracle
touch /Library/StartUpItems/Oracle/StartupParameters.plistand lets make a visible log directory
mkdir /Library/Logs/Oraclepaste the following into /Library/StartUpItems/Oracle/Oracle
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.common
export ORACLE_HOME=/Users/oracle/9iR2/orahome
export SRCHOME=$ORACLE_HOME
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export ORACLE_SID=ab
#Stuff from set_ulimit script provided by Oracle
oracle ulimit -a
ulimit -a
ulimit -c unlimited
ulimit -d unlimited
ulimit -s 65536
ulimit -u 1000
ulimit -Hv
ulimit -a
echo "Setting up Resource Limits complete."
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$S/lib:$S/rdbms/lib
StartService ()
if [ "${ORACLESERVICE:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
     ConsoleMessage "Starting Oracle 9i Database"
     echo "DATE: " `date` > /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     echo "Starting Oracle DB" >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     env >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     sudo -u oracle sqlplus "/ as sysdba" @$S/DBCreate/startdb.sql >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2<&1
     sleep 10
     sudo -u oracle lsnrctl start >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2>&1
     sleep 10
     sudo -u oracle sqlplus "/ as sysdba" @$S/DBCreate/startdb.sql >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2>&1
     sleep 30
     sudo -u oracle lsnrctl status >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2>&1
     sleep 10
     sudo -u oracle sqlplus system/manager @$S/DBCreate/checkdb.sql >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2<&1
     sleep 10
     echo "ORACLE STARTED ON " `date` >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     ConsoleMessage -S "OracleServer"
fi
StopService ()
     if [ "${ORACLESERVICE:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then
     ConsoleMessage "Stopping Oracle 9i Database"
     echo "Stopping Oracle DB" >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     Stopping Oracle Listener
     sudo -u oracle lsnrctl stop >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2>&1
     Stopping Oracle DB
     sudo -u oracle sqlplus "/ as sysdba" @$S/DBCreate/stopdb.sql >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log 2>&1
     sleep 10
     echo "END DATE: " `date` >> /Library/Logs/Oracle/oracle.log
     ConsoleMessage -S "Oracle"
     fi
RestartService ()
     StopService
     StartService
RunService "$1"
And this into /Library/StartUpItems/Oracle/StartupParameters.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
     <key>Description</key>
     <string>Oracle Service</string>
     <key>Messages</key>
     <dict>
          <key>start</key>
          <string>Starting Oracle9i.</string>
          <key>stop</key>
          <string>Stopping Oracle9i.</string>
     </dict>
     <key>OrderPreference</key>
     <string>Last</string>
     <key>Provides</key>
     <array>
          <string>Oracle</string>
     </array>
     <key>Uses</key>
     <array>
          <string>IPServices</string>
          <string>AuthServer</string>
          <string>NetworkExtensions</string>
          <string>Network Time</string>
          <string>Core Services</string>
          <string>BIND</string>
          <string>Cron</string>
          <string>Resolver</string>
          <string>NFS</string>
          <string>SecurityServer</string>
     </array>
</dict>
</plist>
Now edit /etc/hostconfig to include the ORACLESERVICE
ORACLESERVICE=-YES-
Restart you machine or type
sudo /Library/StartupItems/Oracle/Oracle startHope fully you'll have an oracle service.
===Getin the webapp running===
I'm assuming you know how to set tomcat up .
Ignore the nonesense and the stuff oracle provide you just need the oradev directory in DBCreate. I'm using tomcat 4.0.3 in case its an issue.
As root (i think at least (if sqlplus prompts for login then try as oracle (su - oracle)
cd /User/oracle/9iR2/orahome/DBCreate/oradev/ptssql/
./setschema.sh abmactcpset the orapts.jar file in your classpath
tcsh
setenv CLASSPATH $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/oradev/classes/orapts.jarCopy oradev to your webapps directory.
edit server.xml
From:
<Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>
To:
<Context path="" docBase="oradev" debug="0"/>
Start tomcat and request using a web browser
http://127.0.0.1:8080/pts/login.jsp
hit submit and hopefully it runs..
I also had to do a multiple find and replace of the image paths on the jsp files to get the images served.
replaced
from
/oradev/pts/images
to
/pts/images
mail me if it works or not (no abuse please)
[email protected]