Will Chatham

I’m in Ora­cle Appli­ca­tion Server 10g admin­is­tra­tion train­ing all this week. The AF brought in an Ora­cle per­son to teach us how to use the soft­ware since that’s what we will be devel­op­ing the new site on. We have two more weeks com­ing up soon. So far, I have learned a good bit of cool stuff.

A large part of the train­ing has related to using the Apache web server, which unfor­tu­nately in Ora­cle AS 10g is ver­sion 1.3 instead of 2.0. I am real­iz­ing that much of what this expen­sive piece of soft­ware does is sim­ply make it eas­ier to edit Apache con­fig­u­ra­tion files. They just present you with a nice GUI inter­face in which you can change con­fig set­tings, add vir­tual hosts, and restart the httpd service.

I’m sure there will be a lot more to it than that though. I learned a lot about mod_rewrite today, which I have used in the past in a lim­ited capac­ity. It helps me a lot to learn in a class­room set­ting though, and I now under­stand it much bet­ter than ever before. Being able to ask ques­tions and get things explained in var­i­ous ways if need be helps a lot.

This is a link to the learn­ing track we are on. Note the URL in the address bar once you are there. Won­der why they don’t use mod_rewrite to clean that up?

Hope­fully, once the train­ing ses­sions are com­plete, Ora­cle will offer the 10g Web Admin­is­tra­tor cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. Right now it’s still only offered in 9i.