Select the Control from the Oracle HTTP Server menu.

Getting Started with Oracle HTTP Server 4-7 3. Enter the documentation root directory in the Document Root field that forms the main document tree visible from the Web site. 4. Enter the e-mail address in the Administrators E-mail Address field that the server will includes in error messages sent to the client. 5. Enter the directory index in the Directory Index field. The is the main index page that will be displayed when a client first accesses the Web site. 6. Enter the user name in the Operating System User field. This is the user name for the server, when sending and responding to requests. The user should not have privileges that allow it to access files or run programs that are for internal-use only. For example, when a request comes from Oracle Portal, Oracle HTTP Server will respond as the user defined in this field, and should have privileges to access the content in Oracle Portal. However, the user should not have privileges to access company-confidential content. Oracle recommends that you set up a user specifically for running the server. Oracle also recommends that you do not set the user to root. 7. Enter the group name in the Operating System Group field. This is the group for the server, when sending and responding to requests. The user defined for Oracle HTTP Server must be a member of this group. Oracle recommends that you set up a group specifically for running the server. Oracle also recommends that you do not set the group as root. 8. The Modules region is used to enable or disable modules. There are three modules that you can enable or disable: mod_perl, mod_fcgi, and mod_osso. For instructions on configuring the mod_perl module, see Configuring the mod_ perl Module on page 4-11. 9. Create an alias, if necessary in the Aliases table. An alias maps to a specified directory. For example, to use a specific set of content pages for a group you can create an alias to the directory that has the content pages.

10. Review the settings. If the settings are correct, then click Apply to apply the

changes. If the settings are incorrect, or you decide to not apply the changes, then click Revert to return to the original settings. 11. Restart Oracle HTTP Server. See Section 4.1.4 . The server properties are saved, and shown on the Server Configuration page.

4.3.2 Editing the httpd.conf File to Specify Server Properties

To specify the server properties using the httpd.conf file: 1. Open the httpd.conf file using either a text editor or the Advanced Server Configuration page in Fusion Middleware Control. See Section 4.4.6, Modifying an Oracle HTTP Server Configuration File. 2. In the DocumentRoot section of the file, enter the directory that stores the main content for the Web site. The following is an example of the syntax: DocumentRoot {ORACLE_INSTANCE}config{COMPONENT_TYPE}{COMPOENT_ NAME }htdocs 3. In the ServerAdmin section of the file, enter the administrators e-mail address. This is the e-mail address that will appear on client pages. The following is an example of the syntax: