CHAPTER 9Site Administration and Performance Tuning

Out of the box, OracleAS Portal does not require any administration. If you wanted to, you could run OracleAS Portal with all of its default settings and have a perfectly usable portal environment for your developers and end users. But that’s like saying you could install an Oracle database, not perform any administration on it, and start using it. Technically, it is possible to do this, but it wouldn’t be very smart.

There are certain OracleAS Portal settings you will want to alter to tailor your portal to specific needs. OracleAS Portal provides numerous settings that allow administrators to change things like the main page users see when they type in the portal’s URL in their browser, the ...

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