Access control and server side includes (parse-htm – Oracle A54857-03 User Manual

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Migrating to Oracle Web Listener

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[Server]

UseDirIndexing = true

PathCheck index-names=index.html,home.html fn=find-index

The value of index-names= is the initial file to be searched if a URL does
not specify the file name. It is mapped into the svserver.cfg [Server] section
as:

[Server]

InitialFile = index.html

Note:

Oracle Web Application Server only allows one file to be specified in the
InitialFile parameter, while Netscape allows multiple files to be specified in a
comma-separated list. Only the first file specified in the list is used by Oracle
Web Application Server.

Access Control and Server Side Includes (parse-html)

The Netscape server schema for the access control and Server Side Includes (SSI)
is quite different from that of Oracle Web Application Server. Therefore
wlmigrat

does not migrate any Netscape access control information or SSI

(parse-html) information to Oracle Web Application Server.

Access Control

Netscape keeps all the user and group information in binary format under
%NS_HOME%/authdb/<dbname>/*

Oracle Web Application Server keeps all user, group and realm information in
the svserver.cfg file in ASCII format.

The Netscape administration tool generates the ACL command, saves it under
%NS_HOME%/httpacl

, and uses the ACL in obj.conf to apply the access

control on any files on the server machine. The ACL can be a combination of
user, group, IP address, and hostname.

Oracle Web Application Server applies access control on files that exist in its
virtual directory map. Its access control can be the combination of realms and/
or IP address, or realms and/or hostname.

The user can use Oracle Web Application Server Administration Manager to
group all Netscape user and group information into Oracle Application Server’s
user, group and realms, and apply the access control on the file, based on the
virtual path (but not the physical path).

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