Frank,

Thanks for the suggestions...

Unfortunately, Tomcat is not an option for me, as I'm not allowed to run
it at work.  That was why I originally wrote my web app to run under the
Jserv environment that installed with the 9i database server.

Actually, in a test environment, I have a machine that has both Oracle
9i database server (and "Oracle Apache"+Jserv) and "regular" Apache2
(2.0.49) installed and running.  The Oracle Apache is listening of port
7778, and the regular Apache2 is listening on port 443 (HTTPS).  So, it
seems that running both Oracle Apache and non-Oracle Apache on the same
server isn't a problem.

The problem is getting the regular Apache server to integrate with the
Jserv, and that's what I can't figure out how to do.

I tried taking the last part of httpd.conf from the Oracle Apache and
adding it to the end of the httpd.conf of the non-Oracle Apache:

# Include the configuration for Apache JServ 1.1
include "E:\oracle\ora92\Apache\Jserv\conf\jserv.conf"

# Setup of oprocmgr module.
#
# This directive identifies each remote apache instance that will be
# sending requests to processes (e.g., JServs), managed by local Apache
# instances. This directive is used by the local process manager to
share
# routing information with remote apache instances via non-SSL HTTP
messages.
# The directive is repeated for each remote apache instance that will be
# sending requests. The ProcNode directive that refers to the local
apache
# instance will be ignored, but may be supplied to facilitate uniformity
# in configuration across apache instances. Arguments to the ProcNode
must
# be sufficient to reach the remote instance of apache via non-SSL HTTP
# messages. It is not considered an error if the remote apache instance
is
# unreachable, as no assumption is made about the starting order or
# availability of apache instances.
# Syntax: ProcNode <hostname> <port>
# Example: ProcNode abc.com 7777

<IfModule mod_oprocmgr.c>
  ProcNode jimnew 7778
  <Location /oprocmgr-service>
    SetHandler oprocmgr-service
  </Location>
  <Location /oprocmgr-status>
    SetHandler oprocmgr-status
  </Location>
</IfModule>

# Include the Oracle configuration file for custom settings
include "E:\oracle\ora92\Apache\Apache\conf\oracle_apache.conf"

But, when I try to run an "apache -t" on the Apache2 bin, I get:

E:\Apache\bin>apache -t
Syntax error on line 9 of E:/oracle/ora92/Apache/Jserv/conf/jserv.conf:
Cannot load E:/oracle/ora92/Apache/Jserv/ApacheModuleJServ.dll into
server: The
specified module could not be found.

This is despite the ApacheModuleJserv.dll being in the location cited
above.

Is this because the ApacheModuleJserv.dll is also compiled by Oracle
with their own 'C' compiler?

If that's the case, then maybe you're right, and what I'm trying to do
is just not possible :(...

Jim

Billy (and Frank),

Thanks for all of the info.  You're right that I think that I wouldn't
want to go this way, if it's going to take what you're indicating,
because part of my rationale for doing the implementation under Oracle
Jserv was because I knew that I would have that environment available at
work.  Plus now that I've coded it to the Jserv environment, my code
uses some (I think) of that Oracle-specific functionality, including
globals.jsa for holding application-wide variables.

If they (at work) really push to move this to an Apache2 environment,
I'll have to see about porting my app to a different environment,
possibly to WebLogic, because I know that I can get access to that.

One last question:  I gather that the web server installation that
installs with Oracle 10g iAS is different than the 1.3.x version that
installs with Oracle 9i Database server.  Is that also Apache, and does
that happen to be some version (which one?) of Apache2?

Thanks,
Jim