By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:10:36 +0000

Paul, if you can clarify exactly what do you mean by “http://localhost:8080/apex does not work” then it might be easier to help. Does anything bind to port 8080?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:18:36 +0000

Everything installed fine but http://localhost:8080/apex does not work and I followed the instructions to the letter without any errors?

Can anyone shed any light on this?

By: nock

nock — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:54:20 +0000

Alex thank you for your post.
As I encountered a number of issues I have some comments.

STEP 2.

I also created an APEX tablespace but I initially created it with only barely enough space of 200MB.
In addition this install created a lot of pressure on SYSTEM and SYSAUX table spaces:
So to do this properly before you start:

SELECT DFS.TABLESPACE_NAME
, ddf.file_name
, ROUND(SUM(DFS.BYTES)/1000000,3) FREE_MB
, ddf.TOTAL_MB – ROUND(SUM(DFS.BYTES)/1000000,3) USED_MB
, ddf.TOTAL_MB
FROM DBA_FREE_SPACE DFS,
(SELECT FILE_NAME, TABLESPACE_NAME,ROUND(SUM(BYTES)/1000000, 3) TOTAL_MB
FROM DBA_DATA_FILES GROUP BY FILE_NAME, TABLESPACE_NAME) DDF
WHERE DFS.TABLESPACE_NAME = DDF.TABLESPACE_NAME
GROUP BY DFS.TABLESPACE_NAME, ddf.file_name, ddf.TOTAL_MB, ddf.TOTAL_MB;

You need at least 100MB of free space on SYSTEM and SYSAUX tables spaces. If you do not have enough then run the following replacing the file_name and the RESIZE TOTAL_MB.
ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE ” RESIZE 650M;

You also need to create an APEX tablespace with a datafile of at least 250 MB (but I eventually took 350 MB) to hold the APEX schemas:
CREATE TABLESPACE APEX datafile ‘’
SIZE 350M
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;

STEP 6.

At this point everything can go pear shaped (it certainly did for me and a number of others) because when we are setting up the HTTP port for the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG), the procedure is supposed to write to tnsnames.ora and listener.ora but this did not happen for me (I cannot understand why but I did edit both those files manually in the database setup).

That meant I had to mess around with init.ora, tnsnames.ora and listener.ora to get the connect to http://localhost:8080/apex.
I decided to set up an ftp port as well to match some posts that had already done so (see http://www.liberidu.com/blog/?p=122 and http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1106543&tstart=0&messageID=4464127). I used the command:

EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETFTPport(2100);

Then I tried to match the listener output of a successful install and get something like the following with the command lsnrctl status:
When I eventually got it right the listener output looked like:

LSNRCTL for MacOS X Server: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production on 05-AUG-2010 07:47:20

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
————————
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for MacOS X Server: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
Start Date 04-AUG-2010 20:01:47
Uptime 0 days 11 hr. 45 min. 32 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/log/listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary…
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=2100))(Presentation=FTP)(Session=RAW))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary…
Service “PLSExtProc” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “PLSExtProc”, status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “orcl” has 2 instance(s).
Instance “orcl”, status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Instance “orcl”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “orclXDB” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orcl”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
Service “orcl_XPT” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “orcl”, status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
The command completed successfully

Note that under “Listening Endpoints Summary…” we have three listeners: one for HTTP, one for FTP and the last one for the database.
Note also that we have a Service “orcl” where “orcl” is the SID of the Oracle database.
Finally we have a Service called orclXBD which is the EPG HTTP server and we have a Service orcl_XPT (which I assume is the FTP server).

To get there I had to make the following adjustments to listener.ora (shown in full – but I add all the “LISTENER =” details manually).
Note that I had to specify three protocols-hosts-ports, one each for HTTP, FTP and the database

# listener.ora Network Configuration File: /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/admin/listener.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.

SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
)
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = orcl)
(ORACLE_HOME = /Users/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)
)
)

LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW)
)
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=2100))(Presentation=FTP)(Session=RAW)
)
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))
)
)

~
“listener.ora” 29L, 803C

and I had to add the following lines to init.ora to define the HTTP service as orclXDB (i.e. XDB) and enable the local_listener (which I named MY_LISTENER) for multiple ports to be decoded:

dispatchers=”(PROTOCOL=TCP)(SERVICE=orclXDB)”
local_listener=MY_LISTENER

and add the following MY_LISTENER details to pint to ports ion tnsnames.ora

MY_LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW)
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=2100))(Presentation=FTP)(Session=RAW)
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))
)

The final blocking factor was that the browser got so used to failing on http://localhost:8080/apex that it failed (using its cache) even when things were correct.
It was therefore better to use Finder and Go=>Connect to Server to test this link.

By: Cristi

Cristi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:53:07 +0000

Good post!
Thanks

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:11:57 +0000

Thanks Peter – just updated the post to reflect this.

Since APEX Listener requires Tomcat, you would need to install that.

By: Peter de Vaal

Peter de Vaal — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:01:17 +0000

I just downloaded and installed APEX 4.0 on the 10.2.0.4 rdbms on my MacBookPro, following your instructions for APEX 3. It works without modifications!

An alternative for the embedded pl/sql gateway is now to install the apex listener application on a local servletcontainer, e.g. tomcat. I have not tried this yet on MacOS, but on Linux it works great.

By: name

name — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:16:40 +0000

Nice,

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:33:34 +0000

Hi Cory,

I tried this but didn’t work for me. Am I missing something?

Thanks

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:17:45 +0000

Hi Hari,

have you found any solution to above problem?

Thanks

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:16:48 +0000

Hi,

Service was not added to listener..

LSNRCTL for MacOS X Server: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production on 23-MAR-2010 22:43:01

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