Steps for **SUCCESSFUL** installation of 11.5.9 on Windows

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After a lot of effort (formatted the hard disk 5 times and installed everything from scratch ; Searching for 10 hrs on metalink and google ) of trying to figure out the "JSP not responding " problem, I sort of figured out the problem with help from my friends who work at Oracle..
Here are my steps.. (my Environment is Win 2000 Professional with SP4 on a Dell SC400 Pentium 4, 2.4GHz with 1.2G Memory and 120 GB hard drive)
***Made sure that there are no spaces in the directory structure. Also restarted machine after install of VC++ , jdk and Domain name information insertion in hosts file***
1) Installed MKS toolkit (Version 7.0 - I had a trial version)
Installed directory is C:\MKS
2) Installed VC++ 6 from Microsoft Visual Studio CD to c:\MVS (where MVS stands for Microsoft Visual Studio) and applied service pack 5
I read some metalinks where they copied the link.exe file that is in the C:\MVS\VC98\bin folder to c:\winnt\system32 folder.. I did the same for good measure
**** RESTARTED MACHINE****
**NOTE:: RapidWiz asks for MSDev directory during install ( it defaults to C:\VC98).. but during the VC++ install , the environment variable that VC++ sets for MSDev directory is C:\MVS\Common\MSDev98.. (On a Dos window, type "set" )So during install, I set the MSDev directory in RapidWiz to C:\MVS\Common\MSDev98 NOT TO C:\MVS\VC98 **
3) Downloaded make-3.79.1 (NOTE .. This is the only version that is certified to work) unzipped it to C:\ and ran the build_w32.bat file.. Had to run it twice to get the gnumake.exe file in the WinRel folder . I copied it to c:\MKS\mksnt folder
4) Downloaded jdk1.3.1_09 from http://java.sun.com
PLEASE NOTE THE VERSION # and build!! _09!!
Installed it to c:\jdk13 ** Also note that there is no "." in the directory name as specified in the installation instructions by Oracle***
Set Classpath = .; in the environment variable and also added the c:\jdk13\bin to the PATH variable.
**RESTARTED MACHINE!**
5) i)created applmgr, oracle users with Administrative rights..
ii)Made an entry 127.0.0.1 omega.xyz.com
(where omega is my machine name and xyz.com is a **fictitious** DNS domain name) in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
iii) Changed the Virtual Paging Memory to 4000 M on both hard drives on my machine( Right click on "My Computer" , go the advanced tab and then Performance Options and change the Virtual Memory settings
iv)Also, Go to Network - > Local Area Connection -> right click Properties -> click TCP/IP properties -> advanced -> click DNS tab -> enter DNS suffix for this connection as your domain (xyz.com)
**RESTART MACHINE **
6) I copied all the CD's to the Staging folder and started RapidWiz.. I chose d:\oracle as the installation directory!! I installed the Vision Demo and it sort of took 12 hrs..
****MOST IMPORTANT STEP****
During the installation, somewhere during Step 4 of 5 , the files for Jserv are unzipped to d:\oracle\visdora\iAS\Apache\Jserv\
Go to the "etc" folder and open jserv.properties (not jserv.conf)
At the very beginning there is an entry "wrapper.bin" which points to the java executable..
SURPRISE SURPRISE!!! The value that it contained was
wrapper.bin = c:\jdk1.3.1\jre\bin\java.exe !!!
It was supposed to have jdk13 ..And that's why JServ doesn't start up and we get the JSP not responding error!!
CHANGE THE VALUE TO CONTAIN THE CORRECT PATH AND SAVE FILE!! (THIS IS BEFORE STEP 5 of 5)
wrapper.bin =c:\jdk13\jre\bin\java.exe
IF YOU MISSED setting this value (you cannot be around the machine all the time :-) ) and the post installation
steps are executed by RapidWiz with JSP not responding error , Go to the Services from Start->Settings->Control Panel ->Administrative tools ->Services , locate the Oracle HttpServer service, stop it , make changes to the jserv.properties file as outlined above and restart the HTTP Server . Wait for 2 minutes and hit Retry on the RapidWiz window and your system would pass the JSP Test!!!
Phew!! Hope this helps .. Please follow the instructions above.. Read them atleast 2 times ( I just want to save you the pain of installing a second time :-) ) before you install
Cheers
-Srinath

Answer 1

I installed oracle apps 11.5.10.2 using steps given in thread and I didnt have any problems. I then installed it on my friends laptop and it worked fine. but recenly it stopped working in my laptop, i was not able to open login page from main url (http://www.msb.ora:8000) it gave error : page cannot be found
So i reinstalled it on fresh system again.. but since then it not working. I have tried atleast 9-10 times and everytime it ends up with same error "jsp is not responding", I am able to open the rapid install main page but I am not able to open login page. it says page cannot be found. i followed all the steps suggested by you guys in this thread to solve this error, but still have no luck.
I have tried following steps to solve the issue
1) As its recommended to installed apps on fressh os without jdk i did the same, as i didnt worked i tried installation with jdk preinstalled,
2) i have tried on both windows server 2003 and win xp professional
3) I tried to change the jdk path in jser.properties file
I will really appriciate any help to solve this problem. Below is system details:
os: windows server 2003
ram : 1gb
processor: 1.83ghz core 2 duo
Oracle apps 11.5.10.2
java version: 1.4.2_04 ( installed by rapidwiz)