Virtual Directory Server

Hi,
Is the Virtual Directory Server a necessary piece of an IDM installation?
Many Thanks,
Edited by: Chris@Kerr on Oct 14, 2009 2:26 PM

Chris,
VDS is a component of the IdM suite, but is not required for operation.
It is, however, required for integration with SAP HCM or SAP GRC.
Matt

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Hello,
My company is in the process of an SAP implementation, HCM and FICO. We have a Virtual Directory Server as a data source which houses a specific user id of which I need to populate an SAP table based on the PERNR.
Would anyone have experience with this process? Maybe know of some documentation on the web regarding the process for doing this?
Thank you in advance for any information,

Chris,
VDS is a component of the IdM suite, but is not required for operation.
It is, however, required for integration with SAP HCM or SAP GRC.
Matt

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Hi Saggu,
You are absolutely right. It's working fine now. I need to know one more like performance.
If i have three adapters in the adapter configuration, and 21 adapters in the adapter configuration.
Which kind of configuration will help to improve the performance?
Two Scenarios:
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2. 21 Adapters.
Explanation:
1. Adapters are mapped at Root DN level.
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2. Adapters are mapped to interior level.
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Based on the above two scenarios which mapping is the best regarding the performance level.
Can you please suggest me on this performance issue.
Thanks in Advance,
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How Create Virtual Directory On Oracle Application Server 10g on RHEL 5

Dear Sir
i have deployed my application on OAS 10g on RHEL 5 ,,now since my application is calling some pro*c programs and then they generate some text based reports on fixed folder named
/treas/temp
now i simply have to open these text based reports on web browser
WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT('/forms/pcreport/'||v_filename);
but for that i need to create virtual directory name : " /pcreport " without code
kindlly help as its working on my developer suit 10g i created a virtual directory in my application server by making following entry in "orion-web.xml" file
<virtual-directory virtual-path="/pcreport" real-path="/u/treas/temp" />
kindlly help

(My paths shown, yours will be different)
In a text editor :
/u01/app/oracle/product/midtier/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf
Add
Alias /pcreport/ "/u01/app/oracle/product/midtier/forms/pcreport/"
<Directory "/u01/app/oracle/product/midtier/forms/pcreport/">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Create the pcreport directory.
Add a simple test page
vi /u01/app/oracle/product/midtier/forms/pcreport/test.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple test page </title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin-left: 20%;;
margin-right: 20%;
border: 1px dotted gray;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>test!</p>
</body>
</html>
Test
http://yourserver.com:7777/pcreport/test.html
Best Regards
mseberg

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The environment of my application is Application server 9i version 2, on windows 2000, form 9.0.2.
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I need the document to be displayed by the form.
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E:\ora9ias\dcm\config\plugins\apache\httpd.conf
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Thank you very much.
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- browse to your files using: http://machine:7777/forms90/myfiles/filename.
Peter

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Hi there,
The last part is always the hardest. I succesfully converted my Apache configuration to the SunONE setup but one section and I fail to grasp where I'm going wrong...
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</Client>But whenever I use this approach the server refuses to start and presents me with an error:
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Message was edited by:
Lion-O

Thanks a lot for the example, that fixed the problem.
I've been reading the NSAPI programmers guide several times now and I was under the impression that you should either use <object> or <client>, never thought about this approach. Now when I re-read it is makes sense, but wasn't very clear at first.
I think I'll e-mail Sun to suggest an addition of the <Object> tag in their <Client> tag example (http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6252/npgobjcn.html#wp1045056) to make things a little more clear.
Thanks again, now I can finally implement the final configuration settings and plan for the actual switch later this evening.

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Not found
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Thanks,
Gregory

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I am not certain how this function also plays into the embedded pl/sql gateway, but do know it would affect this running through Oracle HTTP server when configured with the before proc.
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importing data ...
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can't recover; calling exit(1)
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Upload client to server virtual directory - Urgent

Hai experts,
Now i am doing a intranet project.
In that project, user has to upload his
own datas. That data has to be stored in
my virtual directory(c:\ramesh). From the
virtual directory i will take the user
files thru my procuedures.
How to copy the client file to my virtual
directory thru Portal.
It is very urgent me, Please give me
any solution
Regards
Ramesh.G

CGI PERL Example to Upload Files
Step 1:
add two directories on httpd.conf file:
/example_cgi/html/ NR /html/
/example_cgi/cgi-bin/ CR /cgi-bin/
Restart Apache.
Step 2:
Copy the ex.html to the /example_cgi/html/ directory.
Copy the ex.pl to the /example_cgi/cgi-bin/ directory.
(both files are listed in the bottom of this NOTE)
Step 3:
Edit the ex.pl file to change the destionation directory on the Web Server,
the user that launched the file must have written permissions in this
directory. Set execute permissions on this file via chmod. Change also the
first line of the file to the directory where you installed the PERL
interpreter. Also change the donepage, to some result page that you want.
Step 4:
Call the page, by using http://host:port/html/ex.html, browse and find 1 or 2 files in the local
system, and press the Upload button, the files will be written in the Web
Server machine in the directory specified in the ex.pl file.
Files:
ex.html:
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/ex.pl" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
File 1:
<input type="file" name="FILE1">
<br>
File 2:
<input type="file" name="FILE2">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Upload!">
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</body>
</html>
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## Attention: do not use a trailing slash
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## The page you wish it to forward to when done:
## I.E. http://www.mydomainname.com/thankyou.html
$donepage = "http://www.oracle.com/";
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$allowall = "yes";
# If the above = "no"; then which is the only extention to allow?
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#$theext = ".gif";
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$onnum = 1;
while ($onnum != 11) {
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$fileName =~ s!^.*(\\|\/)!!;
$newmain = $fileName;
if ($allowall ne "yes") {
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$filenotgood = "yes";
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print OUTFILE $buffer;
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$onnum++;
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Location:$donepage\n\n";
Good Luck.

Virtual directory in iplanet web server 4.1

Hi
We are new to iplanet web server4.1 .we need to run the jsp files from
weblogic 5.1.we have done the following configuration
1)changed the obj.conf file as per documents in weblogic.
2)changed the mime types for jsp from magnus-internal/jsp to text/jsp .
3)i have created a virtual directory with url prefix as "ashish" and Legacy
JSP directory as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles"
4)i have file test.jsp with the path as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
5)in the browser i give the path as http://atg/ashish/test.jsp where atg is
machine name.now the problem is instead of looking for the file as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
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because of this it does not find the file .
6)if i create ashish folder in c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles
then it finds the file.
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i have omitted pathprepend directive above.
Any ideas for this problem.What is the concept of virtual directory which is
there in Internet Information Server.
Thanks in advance
Ashish

Please see my response in the JSP newsgroup
Ashish Nathani wrote:
Hi
We are new to iplanet web server4.1 .we need to run the jsp files from
weblogic 5.1.we have done the following configuration
1)changed the obj.conf file as per documents in weblogic.
2)changed the mime types for jsp from magnus-internal/jsp to text/jsp .
3)i have created a virtual directory with url prefix as "ashish" and Legacy
JSP directory as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles"
4)i have file test.jsp with the path as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
5)in the browser i give the path as http://atg/ashish/test.jsp where atg is
machine name.now the problem is instead of looking for the file as
"c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/test.jsp"
it look as "c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles/ashish/test.jsp"
because of this it does not find the file .
6)if i create ashish folder in c:/weblogic/myserver/public_html/jspfiles
then it finds the file.
what is the problem .???
also on obj.conf file i have written as
Service method="(GET|HEAD|POST|PUT)" type="text/jsp" fn="wl-proxy"
WebLogicHost="192.168.100.78" WebLogicPort="7001"
i have omitted pathprepend directive above.
Any ideas for this problem.What is the concept of virtual directory which is
there in Internet Information Server.
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IIS refuses to serve one specific file through this one specific virtual directory

Other javascript files with the same extension in the same folder work fine. Other virtual directories with the same file work fine.
Any help? Detailed error message is at the bottom.
Problem Details:
Only this combination of virtual directory and file fails http://localhost/jslib/vin.js
Accessing other javascript files in the same location works. i.e. http://localhost/jslib/xvin.js returns fine.
Accessing the same javascript file in the same file location but using a different virtual directory works. i.e. http://localhost/jslibtest/vin.js returns fine.
I checked the security of the file and the folder and gave "Everyone" and the anonymous authentication account set up for the site read rights.
Changing the name of the file (and nothing else) works.
Running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
Web site application pool is running as "LocalSystem", Classic pipeline, .NET v4.0
Things I've tried:
Removing and re-creating the virtual directory with default settings (through IIS Manager)
IISReset
Setting the handler mappings for the virtual directory to "revert to parent" (file works fine when served from the root). Yes, the static file handler is defined.
Setting the MIME types of the virtual directory to "revert to parent" (file works fine when served from the root). Yes, .js is listed as a MIME type application/javascript/
Deleting the file and re-creating it from scratch
Creating a blank file with the same name
Reviewed the web.config file for the site: no mention of either the file or the virtual directory
Trying to access the file using http://localhost/jslib/vin.js reports:
HTTP Error 404.4 - Not Found
The resource you are looking for does not have a handler associated with it.
Detailed Error Information:
Module IIS Web Core
Notification MapRequestHandler
Handler Not yet determined
Error Code 0x80070002
Requested URL http://localhost:80/JSLib/VIN.js
Physical Path F:\VINWebData\wwwroot\JSLib\VIN.js
Logon Method Anonymous
Logon User Anonymous

I would recommend asking them in IIS forum: http://forums.iis.net/
This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.
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Server.MapPath(virtualPath) Returns root directory of controller, it is nor returns the physical path mentioned in the virtual directory in IIS

I have created a virtual directory "myVirtualFile" virtual path is "\myVirtualFile" and I have given physical path as "D:\Home\myProject\Files"
Below is my code
var virtualpath="/myVirtualFile\UserManual";
var resultPath=Server.MapPath(virtualpath);
out put is resultPath contains "D:\Home\myProject\Web\client\myVirtualFile\UserManual" Expected out put is "D:\Home\myProject\Files".
It returns the folder structure of my project. I didn't return the physical path which I mentioned in virtual directory.

Hi,
I am not expert on Asp.Net. But I will try my best.
The following sample is what are
Virtual paths and Physical paths
ASP.NET the "~" tilde indicates the root of a virtual path.
Virtual paths
~/App_Data/Sample.xml
~/
~/Map.txt
Physical paths
C:\Website\Files\Sample.xml
C:\Website\Default.aspx
C:\Website\Map.txt
Server.MapPath doesn't find automatically where a file is. It allows to get the physical path
corresponding to a virtual path (relative to the current request if you don't give an absolute path)
If above still cannot resolve your issue, please repost in Asp.Net forum, The link as above posted.
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