All,

I have been trying to run a CGI script on the tomcat app server by enabling CGI support through the configuration files in tomcat (on windows xp). I have been able to set up this configuration successfully and a sample "hello world" program works ok.

However, now I am trying to run my actual code, which connects to a DB using DBI, but it fails and gives me the following error:

Error ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not
+ exist (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach) connecting to DBI:Oracle:host=<ho
+stname>;sid=<sid>;port=1521
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As per WW's suggestion, here is the "connect" code that I am using:

# DBI Initializations
my $driver = 'Oracle';
my $hostname = 'host=oradev;sid=oradev;port=1521';
my $user = 'user';
my $password = 'password';
my $dsn = "DBI:$driver:$hostname";

my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$password) or croak "Error $DBI::err
+str connecting to $dsn\n";
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I checked the TNSNAMES file and I am able to successfully ping and tnsping to the <hostname>. I wonder what might still be missing! Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,
Sarang D.

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