Problems setting logo - Forms 11g

Question

I've read the manuals, and followed instructions but still cannot get my company logo to appear in the top right hand section of the window bar for Forms 11g using just a image/icon of GIF/JPG file type in any of my directories on my Linux box. On the other hand I am able to get an image to display when using a "jar" file with images inside a jar file.
Here's what I have done. I made a copy of the default.env in the Web Configuration section and use that one (called padb.env). In that my parameters/values that are relevant to the task at hand:
envFile = padb.env
codeBase = /forms/java
imageBase = <blank> (if left blank then by default it is "documentBase")
logo=mylogo.gif
To confirm is "documentBase" the path: Oracle/Middleware/as_1/forms?
If so then any directory is "relative" to "documentBase"
In my environment configuration my parameter values are:
ORACLE_HOME=/mnt/homes/webapp/Oracle/Middleware/as_1
ORACLE_INSTANCE= /home/webapp/share/Oracle/Middleware/asinst_1
FORMS_PATH=/mnt/homes/webapp/Oracle/Middleware/as_1/forms/dev/padb
Now in the Font and Icon Mapping section I've modified the following:
default.icons.path=icons
default.icons.iconextension=gif
Does this mean that "icons" is a directory relative to "documentBase" which is Oracle/Middleware/as_1/forms?
If so then I have a directory called Oracle/Middleware/as_1/forms/icons and inside here is where my "mylogo.gif" is contained.
And so when I run the form, nothing shows up. It works if I follow the steps and archive the images in a JAR file, but I want to have the option of doing it the other way. Is there a permission issue or is there a bug?
Platform: RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) version 5
Database: Oracle 11g
Forms: Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware - Forms Server 11.1.1
Thanks

Answer 1

FormsEleven wrote:
I think, you need to add your icons directory as virtual directory in forms.conf in under $OI and also
default.icons.path=icons should be like
default.icons.path=/forms/icons
or you can try with http://machinemame:port/forms/icons
Okay I'm not to sure but what would be the exact syntax I would have to write in the "forms.conf" file to create this virtual mapping because in the documentation it does not mention modifying this file. It seems straightforward that if I put in a directory "relative" to documentBase then it should read from that directory.
+4.7.3 Deploying Application Icons+
When deploying an Oracle Forms application, the icon files used must be in a Web-enabled format, such as JPG or GIF (GIF is the default format).
By default, the icons are found relative to the DocumentBase directory. That is, DocumentBase looks for images in the directory relative to the base directory of the application start HTML file. As the start HTML file is dynamically rendered by the Forms servlet, the forms directory becomes the document base.
For example, if an application defines the icon location for a button with myapp/<iconname>, then the icon is looked up in the directory forms/myapp.