Application built on oracle forms10g routed via IIS

Question

Dear All,
I have a system running as website: http://www.<abcd>.com/ and it is working ok when access from internet, now in same server we have installed oracle application server and created an application of CRM : http://IP:PORT/forms/frmservlet?config=crm
Now we want an access this CRM via http://www.<abcd>.com/
For this we created a button in http://www.<abcd>.com to access CRM, but it is not working.
Please give me favor if you can help in this.
With Regards,
Anwar Hussain

Answer 1

As far as the connect string goes, I'm not sure exactly what to specify to you.
I am using the default connect string that comes when you install XE.
I.e., "XE".
I suspect this might be a path issue for the virtual account that is used by IIS sessions. As you may know, when IIS runs, it logs the web user into the box using a dummy account, typically prefixed with the string "IUSR".
Although I made this account an admin to the box, I think I may need to add some of the Oracle Client directories to the path which is accessed by this IUSR account. The problem is, the acount, with its password, was set up by default and I don't know what its password is. But I think that I could try to adde Oracle's home path to the default system path, what do you think?
In other words, I don't think the XE connection libraries are available to this dummy IIS account. The strange thing is, it worked for a while, ostensibly till I rebooted.
Know also that I am not using the Oracle Client per se, although I did install it and try it with mixed results. I am just using the Oracle OLE DB ODBC that appeared when I installed the Oracle XE server itself.