IFS and Portal repositories

I need to craft a content management solution using both iFS and portal and whilst I thought this would be easy - it isn't. Why do iFS and Portal use different document repositories?? (they should either be the same - or at least be configurable to be the same!!). I know that you can extend iFS but I'm noJava expert so wouldn't have a clue how to go about it.
Has anyone written anything for iFS that would allow me to read and write documents to the Portal repositories?? If so would you be willing to share the information.
Thanks
Tim

The following thread, http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum36/HTML/001021.html,
confirms Oracle are looking at integrating but with no timelines. I agree customising Portal to us iFS as for it's doc mgnt is an ideal solution. It is something that we are currently embarking on and will let you know how it goes.
Bernard

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I've installed Oracle 9i Database (9.0.1), met the required steps before installing 9iFS. After installing 9iFS, system run fine. Now I installed 9iAS (Rel. 1.0.2.2.2a). Portal 30 is still available, but 9iFS doesn't work. The two Web Servers are configured on different ports and they are available. But Web Server of Oracle 9i installation remarks, that service is temporarily unavailable. Has anybody an idea? Thank you
Martin

Ken,
What versions of software are you trying to install?
Are you trying to install 9iAS Release 2 (9.0.2) with Portal and 9iFS components?
A bare minimum example install involves:
Machine A - Install 9.2 or 9.0.1.3 Database in an Oracle Home directory such as
/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.1
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Machine B - Install 9iAS Infrastructure in an Oracle Home directory such as
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/u01/app/oracle/product/9iASr2
Install 9iFS 9.0.2 to the Portal/Wireless Oracle Home.
You could get by without installing Machine A and using the Database provided by the Infrastructure Home.
You coulld also run all 3 Oracle Homes from the 1 machine if you wish.
Should you not want to use Portal, but only 9iFS, you could install 9iAS "Core" which is just the J2EE and Webcache components thus resulting in you not having to install 9iAS Infrastructure. In this case you would need the database provided by Machine A.
Matt.

Synchronisation problem when using iFS as Portal document repository

Is anyone using 9iFS as the repository for their Portal documents but getting DRG-11602: URL store: access to <file name> requires authentication when synchronising the PORTAL30.WWSBR_URL_CTX_INDX index. This is run under schema CTXSYS, using ctx_schedule.
We use a URL on the Portal folder to access the iFS document and, if the ACE on the document ACL includes World Read, then the document is indexed correctly but if it has no World Read access then synchronisation fails with the above error. These secure documents are indexed correctly, however, when synchronising IFSSYS.IFS_TEXT.
When you put the URL for the document in the browser then you are prompted for an iFS username/password and this is obviously the problem when synchronising. Oracle Support say that the Oracle 9i Oracle Text Reference, Chapter 2: Indexing, definition of URL_DATASTORE states :The login:password@ syntax within the URL is not supported. Oracle Support have also suggested that using iFS as the Portal repository is not standard practice and that we should simply add our documents as items on the folder. Doing this means not being able to take advantage of the added functionality of iFS such as versioning and, anyway, I thought that Oracle had plans to fully integrate the two products with iFS being the default repository in a future release of Portal.
Until then has anyone got any ideas for a workaround because we are unable to index the contents of all secure documents on our Corporate intranet? We cant be the only site using iFS and Portal in this way!

Hello Raymond,
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And what does D:\Oracle\CoreMid\sso\log\ssoreg.log say?
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Shail

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Oracle ifs and BEA weblogic

Oracle ifs and BEA weblogic
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null

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Luis:
The iFS API is 100% pure Java. You can use it from any other Java application, be it JSP, EJB, or a standalone application.
So it really comes down to the CLASSPATH. The iFS API is split among a set of .jar files, and some of the configuration information is stored in .properties files that are outside of these .jar files. All of this stuff needs to be in the CLASSPATH of whatever JVM is calling the iFS API.
The iFS API uses the Oracle JDBC driver to communicate with the Oracle database. This is another requirement. You can't use another JDBC driver; you have to use ours.
So again, it's all about configuration.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Would you mind to share more detail on configurating weblogic to integrate the iFS API?
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SSO and portal timeout -- other bug?

...this is very probably related to the other post talking about SSO and portal timeout...
I am having another weird issue with dotnet portlets that uses inline refresh (done automatically by dotnet accelerator) and SSO.
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POST     302     Redirect to /portal/sso/SSOLogin.aspx?in_hi_userid=15046&space=CommunityPage&parentid=1&cached=false&control=SetCommunity&PageID=0&CommunityID=205&parentname=Login     http://your.portal.com/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_15046_362_205_0_43/http%3B/your.portletserver.com/yourapp/youraspx.aspx
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Please provide me the necessary information..<REMOVED_BY_MODERATOR>
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