Listening on port 80
Briefly in the preceding section, Custom ports and port management, you read about the potential for users to access the Oracle BI application by entering a URL into the address bar without a port number. So instead of http://myserver.com:9500/analytics they can use http://myserver.com/analytics. This configuration is achievable by incorporating what is known as a web (HTTP) tier proxy. In most architectures, the web tier that handles all of the HTTP traffic and the application tier that handles all of the dynamic rendering, database connection, and so on, are separated. Although usually this is done by means of separate physical servers, the configuration can be achieved on the same physical server as long as the server is robust enough to handle the added resource needs of the web tier server. The web/HTTP servers that are compatible with Oracle BI 12c are Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Oracle HTTP Server (OHS, and Apache Web Server. OHS is merely a...
