I am trying to get Oracle Forms to work from a local (same) machine so that I don't have to rely on the busy DBA to set up test stuff. The problem is that it keeps complaining about a missing "web listener" it wants for DB access. It seems that some use Apache for this. However, I am having trouble getting local appache to "see" stuff in alias directories. I am trying to open up (rid) all access restrictions to achieve this. (I used the "one machine" Apache option, so I don't think I have to worry about outsiders poking around, I hope.)

I tried both these variations without success:

    Alias /test/ "c:\\http\\test"
    <Directory "c:\\http\\test">
       Options All
       AllowOverride All
       Allow from all
    </Directory>

    Alias /test/ "c:\\http\\test\\"
    <Directory "c:\\http\\test\\">
       Options All
       AllowOverride All
       Allow from all
    </Directory>

Is there something like a "let everything in" command?

Or, does anybody know about easy-to-setup web server for local testing purposes? (Like an OSS version of MS Personal Web Server?) Apache is kind of overwhelming for non-admin types like me.

I re-installed the Oracle stuff may ways (different settings) and two different versions.

Regarding apache though, if I give it the following URL:

[link|http://localhost/test/index.html|http://localhost/test/index.html]

I get this error message in the log:

[Thu Jan 24 11:19:26 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: c:/http/testindex.html

IOW, it is tossing the last slash somewhere. (The file is visable from the web "directory" though.) I swear that I did not use the SlashToss command :-)

BTW, thanks.