HTTP Server and XE

Question

Can the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) be configured to be used in place of the default web server on XE? I have seen the thread about using Apache as a reverse proxie, but I wanted to simply use the OHS as the only web server for my XE installation. Can someone tell me how this is done?

Answer 1

You might try the following:
(I just did a quick try and didn't make sure that everything will work afterwards, but it looks good).
XE uses the database user ANONYMOUS to connect to the database, not APEX_PUBLIC_USER or HTMLDB_PUBLIC_USER.
1) make a backup of XE first
2) change the password of anonymous:
SQL> conn / as sysdba;
Connect durchgef³hrt.
SQL> alter user anonymous identified by xxx5;
Benutzer wurde geõndert.3) add the following configuration to your dads.conf (or marvel.conf, depending on which you use):
<Location /pls/xe>
Order deny,allow
PlsqlDocumentPath docs
AllowOverride None
PlsqlDocumentProcedure      wwv_flow_file_manager.process_download
PlsqlDatabaseConnectString  localhost:1521:xe ServiceNameFormat
PlsqlNLSLanguage            GERMAN_GERMANY.AL32UTF8
PlsqlAuthenticationMode     Basic
SetHandler                  pls_handler
PlsqlDocumentTablename      wwv_flow_file_objects$
PlsqlDatabaseUsername       anonymous
PlsqlDefaultPage            apex
PlsqlDatabasePassword       xxx5
Allow from all
</Location>4) restart the Oracle http server
5) try http://<hostname>:7777/pls/xe (assuming that you run the OHS on the default port)
It works for me.
You only have to make sure that the /i/ directory contains the css and javascript files that are compatible with XE. I guess the ones from Apex 2.0 will work fine. But I am not sure. You might have to do some more testing here.
Regards,
~Dietmar.