Dreaded forms web deployment...

Conf -
Oracle 8i, diffent home.
OAS 4.0.8, differet home.
Dev6 different home.
Has anyone successfully implemented the CWEB Cartridge on OAS 4.0.8. and managed to call their forms from a Netscapre browser. I have followed the documentation from the On-line manual and other books but no joy.
I have however noticed that, under the "Web Parameters" node in the "Configuration" section of my cartridge, there is no Listener selection box even though the doucumentation states there is.
I have configured a listener and the status is UP.
I am new to the forum so maybe this has been dealt with already. Can anyone shed some light.
Thanks

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I used 90 for the webserver port number because there was another non-ORACLE process that was using 80. If you're using 80 which is the default port of the webserver(WWW HTTP listener in OAS Manager) make sure that it is up and running. Also make sure that you turn on the forms server listener process, you can do this by running this command 'ifsrv60 -listen [port_number]'. If you don't specify the a port number it will default to port 9000. So to access your web apps you will type something like this in you browser
'http://www.abc.com:80/web_html/static_jinit.html'.
Also try adding a userid=user/password@datasource in your static_jinit.html.
Example:
serverArgs="module=d:\gcrs_dev\formsdev\gcrsmain.fmx userid=scott/tiger@orcl"
Good luck.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Zeuser:
Roncab,
Thanks for the reply. I have carried out the static immplementation but after the clicking the download button for the JInitiator, the environment window appears with a button requesting to "Click after download". On clicking this button nothing happens.
Secondly, I am able to add & configure a new listener but unable to call it. Are you using a port other than 80? If you are then you might have problems. The other strange thing is I cannnot access my page configured for port 80 from another machine.
I haven't installed patch 6a yet, so maybe this might fix my problems. However I am using Dev6 downloaded from technet and the readme notes mention that the patch may work only on production versions, hence my reluctance.
Below is the start page I am using. Maybe you can spot any errors.
Cheers
<HTML>



<HEAD><TITLE>Developer Server and Oracle JInitiator</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>

<OBJECT classid="clsid:020f6116-407b-11d3-a3bb-00c04fa32518"
<EMBED type="application/x-jinit-applet;version=1.1.7.18"
java_CODE="oracle.forms.engine.Main"
java_CODEBASE="/web_code60/"
java_ARCHIVE="/web_jars60/f60all.jar, /web_jars60/oracle_ice-4_03_1.jar"
WIDTH=800
HEIGHT=600
serverPort="9000"
serverArgs="module=d:\gcrs_dev\formsdev\gcrsmain.fmx running_mode='WEB'"
serverApp="default"
separateFrame="true"
lookAndFeel="Oracle"
pluginspage="http://acme.com/web_code60/jinit_download.htm">
<NOEMBED>
</NOEMBED></EMBED>
</BODY>
</HTML>>>></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</BODY><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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