Web Deployment - a few questions

Hi, I have followed all the steps in the guide for application deployment. In point #10 of the steps for web deployment it states "take the resulting MSO from the deployment project and copy it to the deployment server". Is this a typo? I only see a MSI file.
In point #11, it states "run the MSI on the server while logged in as administrator". So do I just run that program from anywhere, i.e. the desktop of the server? I don't have to run it from within a particular folder?
Lastly, after creating the setup project I wanted to check it in to my solution. I get the following error message:
"The project that you are attempting to add to source control may cause other souce control users to have difficulty opening this solution or getting a newer version of it. To avoid this problem, add the project from a location below the binding root of the other source controlled projects in the solution."
Any ideas on what I can do to correct this? We have multiple projects and developers and I don't want to be the guy who broke source control. I am also wondering if I can just delete the websetup project since I now have the MSI? Do I really need to keep the project or is it okay to delete it from our solution?
Sorry for the raft of questions but as I said above, I don't want to break this for everyone else. Thanks in advance!
VS.Net 2003
CR 9 (embedded)
Dan
Edited by: Dan C on Dec 1, 2008 9:48 PM

Hi, I have followed all the steps in the guide for application deployment. In point #10 of the steps for web deployment it states "take the resulting MSO from the deployment project and copy it to the deployment server". Is this a typo? I only see a MSI file.
- typo for sure
In point #11, it states "run the MSI on the server while logged in as administrator". So do I just run that program from anywhere, i.e. the desktop of the server? I don't have to run it from within a particular folder?
- any folder will do, even desktop
Lastly, after creating the setup project I wanted to check it in to my solution. I get the following error message:
"The project that you are attempting to add to source control may cause other source control users to have difficulty opening this solution or getting a newer version of it. To avoid this problem, add the project from a location below the binding root of the other source controlled projects in the solution."
Any ideas on what I can do to correct this? We have multiple projects and developers and I don't want to be the guy who broke source control.
- I believe the message is essentially a warning so that you do not include the runtime from another version of CR
I am also wondering if I can just delete the websetup project since I now have the MSI? Do I really need to keep the project or is it okay to delete it from our solution?
- All you need is the msi. You can add the msi to your setup project, or you can run the msi on it's own.
Ludek

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cookies UTL_HTTP.COOKIE_TABLE;
secure VARCHAR2(1);
BEGIN
-- When going through a firewall, pass requests through this host.
-- Specify sites inside the firewall that don't need the proxy host.
-- UTL_HTTP.SET_PROXY('proxy.example.com', 'corp.example.com');
-- Ask UTL_HTTP not to raise an exception for 4xx and 5xx status codes,
-- rather than just returning the text of the error page.
UTL_HTTP.SET_RESPONSE_ERROR_CHECK(FALSE);
-- Begin retrieving this Web page.
req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST(url);
-- Identify yourself.
-- Some sites serve special pages for particular browsers.
UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER(req, 'User-Agent', 'Mozilla/4.0');
-- Specify user ID and password for pages that require them.
IF (username IS NOT NULL) THEN
UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION(req, username, password, 'Basic', false);
END IF;
-- Start receiving the HTML text.
resp := UTL_HTTP.GET_RESPONSE(req);
-- Show status codes and reason phrase of response.
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('HTTP response status code: ' || resp.status_code);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE
('HTTP response reason phrase: ' || resp.reason_phrase);
-- Look for client-side error and report it.
IF (resp.status_code >= 400) AND (resp.status_code <= 499) THEN
-- Detect whether page is password protected
-- and you didn't supply the right authorization.
IF (resp.status_code = UTL_HTTP.HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED) THEN
UTL_HTTP.GET_AUTHENTICATION(resp, my_scheme, my_realm, my_proxy);
IF (my_proxy) THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Web proxy server is protected.');
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT('Please supply the required ' || my_scheme ||
' authentication username/password for realm ' || my_realm ||
' for the proxy server.');
ELSE
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Please supplied the required ' || my_scheme ||
' authentication username/password for realm ' || my_realm ||
' for the Web page.');
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Web page ' || url || ' is protected.');
END IF;
ELSE
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check the URL.');
END IF;
-- UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
-- RETURN;
-- Look for server-side error and report it.
ELSIF (resp.status_code >= 500) AND (resp.status_code <= 599) THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check if the Web site is up.');
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
RETURN;
END IF;
-- HTTP header lines contain information about cookies, character sets,
-- and other data that client and server can use to customize each
-- session.
FOR i IN 1..UTL_HTTP.GET_HEADER_COUNT(resp) LOOP
UTL_HTTP.GET_HEADER(resp, i, name, value);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(name || ': ' || value);
END LOOP;
-- Read lines until none are left and an exception is raised.
--LOOP
-- UTL_HTTP.READ_LINE(resp, value);
-- DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(value);
--END LOOP;
UTL_HTTP.GET_COOKIES(cookies);
dbms_output.put_line('======================================');
FOR i in 1..cookies.count LOOP
IF (cookies(i).secure) THEN
secure := 'Y';
ELSE
secure := 'N';
END IF;
-- INSERT INTO my_cookies
-- VALUES (my_session_id, cookies(i).name, cookies(i).value,
-- cookies(i).domain,
-- cookies(i).expire, cookies(i).path, secure, cookies(i).version);
dbms_output.put_line('site:'||url);
dbms_output.put_line('cookies:');
dbms_output.put_line('name:'||cookies(i).name);
dbms_output.put_line('value:'||cookies(i).value);
dbms_output.put_line('domain:'||cookies(i).domain);
dbms_output.put_line('expire:'||cookies(i).expire);
dbms_output.put_line('path:'||cookies(i).path);
dbms_output.put_line('secure:'||secure);
dbms_output.put_line('version:'||cookies(i).version);
END LOOP;
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
EXCEPTION
WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
END;
/

I use oracle database enterprise edtion 10.2.0.3. I have already figured out the epg on 10.2.0.3 to support apex 3.2.
And as I described above, the apex site works fine for ip address , and localhost. but the cookie will be blocked by IE6, if I want to access the site by 'http://computername:port/apex/apex_admin'. This problem does not occured in firefox and google browser. Could someone give me answer?

Hi, I want to downgrade from OSX LEOPARD to OSX TIGER but I have a few questions regarding this. My iMac is originally from 2007 it came preloaded with tiger. I have original install tiger discs version 10.4.10. Is it safe to downgrade or not please help

Hi, I want to downgrade from OSX LEOPARD to OSX TIGER but I have a few questions regarding this. My iMac is originally from Sep 2007 it came preloaded with tiger. I have original install (2) tiger discs version 10.4.10. I want to know if it is safe and what are the necessary steps to do so. Also by downgrading im wondering if a lot of apps nowadays support tiger for example I have photoshop version 5 and 4 these are very important to me. One last question does anyone know of any reliable virus protection for mac that doesnt slow down your computer? because I have read that a lot of them do so. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it! Here are the specs for my iMac
Model Name:
iMac
Model Identifier:
iMac7,1
Processor Name:
Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:
2 GHz
Number Of Processors:
1
Total Number Of Cores:
2
L2 Cache:
4 MB
Memory:
2 GB
Bus Speed:
800 MHz

Most of the time a perception of general slow performance is the result of installing third party junk alleged to speed up, "clean" or "optimize" your Mac, or to look for viruses that don't exist. Ideally you would know what you installed so you can uninstall it, but if you don't know or aren't sure there are techniques such as Safe Mode and creating a temporary user account to confirm that suspicion.
If you open Activity Monitor it may show a process, or processes, that occupy a lot of your system's time.
Slowness confined solely to web browser activity is often the result of an inexorable progress toward websites that demand ever more processor-intensive tasks. If your slow performance is strictly limited to web browsing, you might try disabling Flash by either uninstalling it, or use utilities such as ClickToFlash that allow you to control what Flash content gets loaded. Flash in itself is not inherently evil, but there is nothing to stop websites or the advertisers who pay for them from writing horrible Flash code that can do everything from hogging 100% of your CPU's time to causing random crashes. You can watch Activity Monitor as in the above to correlate these troublesome web pages with performance degradation.
You are correct; if your computer shipped with Tiger you may certainly revert to it. I forgot that Tiger was shipping on new Macs as recently as five years ago. To downgrade it would be necessary to completely erase your hard disk and boot with the Tiger installation DVD, followed by installing it anew. Such drastic measures are not necessary and you are unlikely to be satisfied with the results anyway.
Assuming your system is free of third party parasitic junk attached to OS X in an ill-conceived attempt to improve upon it, that your hard disk drive is sound and the boot volume has enough free space to work with, by far the best performance-enhancing improvement would be to add more memory. Buy as much as your computer can use and that you can afford. 2 GB is not that much any more.
Read the following for some recommended troubleshooting techniques from Apple:
General purpose Mac troubleshooting guide: Isolating issues in Mac OS X
Creating a temporary user to isolate user-specific problems: Isolating an issue by using another user account
Memory limitations: Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Identifying resource hogs and other tips: Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime
Starting the computer in "safe mode": Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?

EBS 12.1.3: a few questions about cloning

Hi,
We have EBS 12.1.3 on AIX 7.1.
A few questions about cloning from shared application tier environment to non-shared application tier environment. We have been following "Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [ID 406982.1]"
Source environment (shared app tier):
- Two active application nodes and LB
- One active database and one passive database setup with Oracle Data Guard.
- SSL termination at the load balancer
- PCP implemented
Target environment (non-shared app tier):
- One active application node
- One active database node
- No SSL
- No PCP
After the cloning was completed we noticed the following problems in the target system:
1) Home page cannot be accessed as application tier $CONTEXT_FILE still contains "https" and ssl termination settings.
Workaround:
Modify (with text editor) Application Tier $CONTEXT_FILE as follows.
<webentryurlprotocol oa_var="s_webentryurlprotocol" customized="yes">http</webentryurlprotocol>
<sslterminator oa_var="s_enable_sslterminator">#</sslterminator>
<login_page oa_var="s_login_page" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin</login_page>
<externURL oa_var="s_external_url" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000</externURL>
Run AutoConfig and start application tier.
Is there a better and supported solution for this?
2) Concurrent managers do not work correctly as they have still old node names (used in PCP in the source system). Workaround used:
1. Logon to EBS web GUI and remove all nodes from all concurrent managers.
2. Shutdown application tier. Verify that all concurrent managers have been shutdown. If not, kill the processes manually
3. As apps user run cmclean.sql
4. Restart application tier
Is there a better solution for this?
3) Database changes from ARCHIVELOG mode to nonarchivelog mode in the target system. Is there anyway to prevent this?
4) Also, we would like to perform a full clone (app + db tiers) from production without shutting down the application. Is this possible? What would be the best documents to describe this? In Production, we have Oracle Data Guard setup with physical standby as per "Oracle Tech Note: Business Continuity for Oracle E-Business Release 12 Using Oracle 11g Physical Standby Database [ID 1070033.1]". This can be used when performing a hot clone for the database, right? What about the application tier? Steps described in 406982.1 include running AutoConfig in which application tier should be down. Does the application need to be down when running "Maintain Snapshot Information"?
5) One final question (not related to cloning). Oracle Enterprise Manager console webUI has recently stopped working in IE8. E.g. https://myhost.mydomain.com:5501/em gives "Page cannot be displayed". This was working correctly last week. In Firefox, the same link is working fine. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks for your answers in advance.
BR,
TH

1) Home page cannot be accessed as application tier $CONTEXT_FILE still contains "https" and ssl termination settings.
Workaround:
Modify (with text editor) Application Tier $CONTEXT_FILE as follows.
<webentryurlprotocol oa_var="s_webentryurlprotocol" customized="yes">http</webentryurlprotocol>
<sslterminator oa_var="s_enable_sslterminator">#</sslterminator>
<login_page oa_var="s_login_page" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin</login_page>
<externURL oa_var="s_external_url" customized="yes">http://myhost.mydomain.com:8000</externURL>
Run AutoConfig and start application tier.
Is there a better and supported solution for this?No, you need to edit the context file manually and run AutoConfig.
2) Concurrent managers do not work correctly as they have still old node names (used in PCP in the source system). Workaround used:
1. Logon to EBS web GUI and remove all nodes from all concurrent managers.
2. Shutdown application tier. Verify that all concurrent managers have been shutdown. If not, kill the processes manually
3. As apps user run cmclean.sql
4. Restart application tier
Is there a better solution for this?You are following the best approach. You could update the node details from the backend if you want.
3) Database changes from ARCHIVELOG mode to nonarchivelog mode in the target system. Is there anyway to prevent this?By default, Rapid Clone will create the target database in noarchivelog mode.
4) Also, we would like to perform a full clone (app + db tiers) from production without shutting down the application. Is this possible? What would be the best documents to describe this? In Production, we have Oracle Data Guard setup with physical standby as per "Oracle Tech Note: Business Continuity for Oracle E-Business Release 12 Using Oracle 11g Physical Standby Database [ID 1070033.1]". This can be used when performing a hot clone for the database, right? Correct.
What about the application tier? Steps described in 406982.1 include running AutoConfig in which application tier should be down. Does the application need to be down when running "Maintain Snapshot Information"?You can copy the application tier node files while the application is up. And, you do not need to shutdown the application to run "Maintain Snapshot Information".
5) One final question (not related to cloning). Oracle Enterprise Manager console webUI has recently stopped working in IE8. E.g. https://myhost.mydomain.com:5501/em gives "Page cannot be displayed". This was working correctly last week. In Firefox, the same link is working fine. Any ideas how to fix this?
If it is working from one browser, then it should not be an EM issue. Have you tried from a different client and see if this works? Have you changed any setting in your IE browser? Please make sure you add the EM URL to the trusted sites list.
Thanks,
Hussein

N97 mini: a few questions (touchscreen, battery, k...

Hi all,
I have a few questions on the N97 mini I was hoping you guys could help me with:
touchscreen and navigation arrows: if I choose to, can I avoid to use the touchscreen and resort to the arrows in the keyboard? For example, to navigate in a web page
battery life: what's your experience so far?
keyboard: I understand this is very subjective, but how are you finding it? I hate to type on touchscreens. Do you find it convenient or is it annoying to open the sliding keyboard every single time?
I am considering moving from the E71 to the N97 mini, because an operator has a pretty good deal on it, and because I'd like a bigger keyboard and bigger screen, even though I understand this comes at the price of reduced battery life.

I have N97 and fully drain it before the end of the day and so have a spare battery, this is not because the phone or battery are bad ! It's because I am constantly using it, I have apps running all the time, watch video every lunch time, browse the web whenever I get a spare 5 minutes, txt and e-mail and even make the occasional call !! Lol
I have never used a phone as much as this one and was very 'anti touchscreen' before I got it, and only took the chance brcause of physical keypad, but I wouldn't go back, not saying E-series aren't good phones but 'fun factor' on a larger touch screen is massively more. Plus it will still do all the 'normal 'stuff fine. Give it a go
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A few questions about upgrades & functionalities

We are looking to upgrade from Crystal 9 to either XI or 2008. I have a few questions. Currently we are not using the Crystal Server, but we are highly considering it. Here are my questions:
1. We need our customers to be able to run live reports. However, if I create one .rpt file with parameters such as customer ID and give access to all of our customers to this report, will each instance be saved universally? For example, if Company B ran the report with their parameters, does that mean Company C will be able to view the data from Company B? Is there a way to limit instances per user?
2. Is there a way to view rpt design features on the web? For example, we have many employees that need to know what fields are dynamic, etc. in a report. Is there anyway for them to be able to view the report design on the server or without having Crystal loaded on their machines?
3. If we do have customers run their reports on the web, is there anyway to prevent them from downloading the report as a .rpt file? We have customer data hard-coded into some of the reports and only wish for them to see the finished report.
4. Currently we use APIs with UB.NET with Crystal 9 to loaded data from XML files to run the reports. Will we need to upgrade any of those in order to run 2008 rpt files?
Thank you so much!

Hi,
here some comments on your questions:
1) You can use the scheduling mechanism of the server to: Create instances that can be sent to users inside the system/via email and so on. You can prevent users from seeing data that they are not allowed to be using row-level- or report-level- security. How this can be implemented is depending on the datasource(s) you are using.
2) No. You can only see/change the report design with Crystal Reports Designer application. You could either build your report design to show the users the desired information or you may use Web Intelligence to enable end-users see and change the actual report design.
3) Yes this should be possible via security settings on the server.
4) It depends on what you are actually doing. The SDKs should still work similar, but you can also use XML data in your Crystal Reports out-of-the-box.
Regards,
Harald

A few questions about Adobe Flash

questions:
1.Can adobe flash use web services?
2.How does adobe flash handle the back button or bookmarks?
3.Can adobe flash interact with javascript on a page? Like
call a javascript function and pass it XML as a
parameter?
4.How does adobe flash handle asychronous post backs?
5.Can flash interact with cookies or store information on the
users computer which the flash file can interact
with?
6.Can a adobe flash file be created dynamicaly on the server,
so the flash file the user receives will be more
tailored to them? Or is the Flash file just a static compiled
file thats imported into the html? By this I
mean can the information and images and menus the flash file
will display be pulled from a database and
dynamically generated per user?
7.I've read somewhere a while back that google was trying to
make flash files serchabe so that they can be
listed on googles search engine. Is this an easy
implementation or can only professional flash programmers
accomplish this?
8.Whats the learning curve for learning adobe flash, if I
have many years experience in programming web
applications using html, css, vb.net, and javascript? Not
just learning actionscript but also learning how to
use Adobe flash to create full flash websites?
Okay, so thats more than a few questions :) Once I started
writing my first few I just couldn't stop. But please anyone who
can answer these would be of great help to me in deciding if I
should invest any time into adobe flash.
Thanks for your time,
Evan

>>1.Can adobe flash use web services?
Yes
2.How does adobe flash handle the back button or bookmarks?
It doesn't, but you can use SWFAddress to do just that. Works
great.
3.Can adobe flash interact with javascript on a page? Like
call a
javascript
function and pass it XML as a parameter?
Yes.
4.How does adobe flash handle asychronous post backs?
All net calls are asynchronous - you can use
LoadVars.sendAndLoad or
remoting... I like AMFPHP for remoting.
5.Can flash interact with cookies or store information on
the users
computer
which the flash file can interact with?
Yes - you can use a server-side language like PHP to set
cookies directly,
or use Flash's built in cookie like feature: The Shared
Object
6.Can a adobe flash file be created dynamicaly on the
server, so the flash
file the user receives will be more tailored to them? Or is
the Flash file
just a static compiled file thats imported into the html? By
this I mean
can the information and images and menus the flash file will
display be
pulled from a database and dynamically generated per user?
Entire flash sites can be dynamic - it's what I do... I use
PHP / AMFPHP and
MySQL to build dynamic flash content.
7.I've read somewhere a while back that google was trying to
make flash
files serchabe so that they can be listed on googles search
engine. Is
this an easy implementation or can only professional flash
programmers
accomplish this?
Easy is a relative term... the best way right now is to use
SWFObject
(Google for swfobject seo) - essentially you build an html
site inside the
Flash's <div> so the spiders will see the alternate
content.
8.Whats the learning curve for learning adobe flash, if I
have many years
experience in programming web applications using html, css,
vb.net, and
javascript? Not just learning actionscript but also learning
how to use
Adobe flash to create full flash websites?
If you have experience programming the curve will be
smaller... but there
are lots of elements to absorb. And no matter what, you
always have more to
learn.
Dave -
www.offroadfire.com
Head Developer
http://www.blurredistinction.com
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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