Apache with OracleXE Apex...

Question

Hi,
I installed OracleXE on my laptop. I would be able to go to Start/All Programs/Oracle Database 10g Express Edition/Go To Database Home Page
(which is C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\Database_homepage.url)
I had installed my APEX app and it worked fine.
Next step was to get FOP -- PDF conversion working...
I installed the Apache webserver locally and now need to allow Apache to be my webserver and not the one that comes with XE.
Did I say that right?
I want to get my application working again using the Apache server.
Then I will proceed with the How To involving the FOP-PDF stuff.
I believe XE was coming up as http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex
Now I get the error page...
If I put http://127.0.0.1/ in the URL it brings up a page that says "It works!"
which I presume is Apache saying it is working properly.
But now I am stumped how to connect the two together..
Thank you, Bill

Answer 1

Thanks for the help:
The following is from the XE link:
I would suggest using your Apache as a proxy to your XE installation.
Make sure that in your httpd.conf the following modules are loaded:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
Then add the following lines to your httpd.conf:
SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
ProxyPass /htmldb http://127.0.0.1:8080/htmldb
ProxyPassReverse /htmldb http://127.0.0.1:8080/htmldb
ProxyPass /i http://127.0.0.1:8080/i
ProxyPassReverse /i http://127.0.0.1:8080/i
ProxyPass /sys http://127.0.0.1:8080/sys
ProxyPassReverse /sys http://127.0.0.1:8080/sys
where you replace
127.0.0.1
with the name or ip address of your XE installation. 8080 is the default http port of your XE installation.
Then you could access HTML DB/XE using the url http://appserver/htmldb.
~dietmar.
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