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Oracle HTTP Server

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Maintaining Oracle HTTP instances

Maintaining Oracle HTTP instances

The Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is essential to any large Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. And despite the most common description for that product being "Apache HTTP server with custom modules," it's not as simple as it sounds. Let's walk around and take a look at how it's made.

Whiteboard design discussion.

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Standalone Oracle HTTP Server: Deployment Options

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned multiple Oracle HTTP server deployment options. Let me do a small "show & tell" to explain how I pick the configuration.

Mysterious TLS in Oracle HTTP

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Mysterious TLS in Oracle HTTP

A little "forget-me-not" from a recent Oracle HTTP server troubleshooting, but it could happen to Apache HTTPD as well. To set up a stage: a work installation of the Oracle HTTP Server, stop presenting certificates on the secured port.

Getting HTTP-403 connecting to OHS using CORS

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Getting HTTP-403 connecting to OHS using CORS

We had a vanilla installation of Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 12.1.3 and configured it to support CORS. On a new installation of OHS 12.2.1, the same behavior wasn't working. What is CORS? CORS is Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, and you can find an explanation of