Guide to Install ORALCE APEX with HTTP Server

1. Install Http server from ORACLE Companion CD. Install it on other than Oracle database home
like /rdbms/app/oracle/product/httpserver. Select http server only (don’t select HTML DB) when
system asks during the installation. The system will give linking error during installation; select
‘Continue’ on that error. After installation run root.sh from httpserver home i.e.
/rdbms/app/oracle/product/httpserver as root user. After this installation, browse
http://<server ip>:<http port default 7777> from any PC; if Oracle HTTP server welcome page is
appeared then it means http server is installed successfully. Add export
ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME= /rdbms/app/oracle/product/httpserver in .bash_profile of oracle
user. Moreover, add the following lines in the PATH variable of .bash_Profile:
:$ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/bin:$ ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin

2. Stop httpserver from ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin as opmnctl stopall

3. Unzip apex*.zip on any file system of the server ( We extracted it in /freespace)

4. Execute owainst.sql from apex/owa directory under SYS user. Check the version after it that
should be 10.1.2.0.6 or higher by select owa_util.get_vesion from dual; Run
rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql from oracle home on the safer side afterwards.

5. Create tablespace for apex users and files. Create tablespace myapx datafile
‘/mydbs2/oradata/mysys/MYAPX.dbf’ size 200M autoextend on extent management local
segment space management auto online;

6. Change directory to apex (on the file system at where the apex is unzipped like /myspace/apex).
Take SQL session from SYS user and then run: @apexins MYAPX MYAPX TEMP /i/

7. After the completion of apexins.sql script, execute apxchpwd .sql to change the password of
apex ADMIN account. Set the desired password when the system prompts for it.

8. Restart http server from ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin as opmnctl startall

9. Unlock APEX_PUBLIC_USER account by SYS user. Alter user APEX_PUBLIC_USER account unlock;

10. Change the password of APEX_PUBLIC_USER by SYS user. Alter user APEX_PUBLIC_USER
identified by <passowrd>;

11. Increase the JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES by SYS user, if it is less than 20. Alter system set
JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES = 50; To check this parameter run: select value from v$parameter
where name = ‘job_queue_processes’;

12. Copy the images directory to correct location (from the file system where apex is unzipped like
/myspace/apex). cp -rf /myspace/apex/images ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/Apache

13. Configure the dads.conf file located at ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/Apache/modplsql/conf.

Copy the following contents in this file and then modify the parameter accordingly:
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Alias /i/ "/rdbms/app/oracle/product/httpserver/Apache/images/" # point the image directory

AddType text/xml xbl

AddType text/x-component htc

<Location /pls/apex>
SetHandler pls_handler
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
AllowOverride None
PlsqlDatabaseUsername APEX_PUBLIC_USER
PlsqlDatabasePassword <apex_public_user password>
PlsqlDatabaseConnectString 192.168.0.1:1521:mysys # <server ip:listener port:service name>
PlsqlAuthenticationMode Basic
PlsqlDefaultPage apex
PlsqlDocumentTablename wwv_flow_file_objects$
PlsqlDocumentPath docs
PlsqlDocumentProcedure wwv_flow_file_mgr.process_download
PlsqlNLSLanguage AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
</Location>
14. Start and stop http server from ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin. opmnctl stopall;
opmnctl startall;

15. Optionally, the password of PlsqlDatabasePassword parameter can be encrypted. To obfuscate

or encrypt passwords, run dadTool.pl by following the instructions in the dadTool.README file
under ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/Apache/modplsql/conf directory.

16. Now, the installation and configuration is done. The apex can be accessed by any PC’s browser
as http://hostname:port/pls/apex/apex_admin
(http://192.168.0.1:1521/pls/apex/apex_admin). The user name will be ADMIN (the password
that you have been set through point 7 of this document). The system will ask for change of
password. Set the password as per system’s complexity rule.

17. To make the http server start up automatically, add the following as last line in
/etc/init.d/dbstart by root user:

su - oracle $ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin/opmnctl startall >> /var/log/dbstart

18. To make the http server shut down automatically, add the following line after dbshut line under
stop() tag in /etc/init.d/xfs by root user:

su - oracle $ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME/opmn/bin/opmnctl stopall >> /var/log/dbshut

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