APEX 3.1 Released

For those of you following the forum via RSS, you don't see the sticky announcements, so I thought I would post it here.
Tyler
http://tylermuth.wordpress.com

There are some subtle differences:
Install 3.1 on XE failed
I lost count of the number of times I tried installing it last night and today. I successfully installed 3.01 and I couldn't figure out why 3.1 was not working.
Well, I finally read the documentation carefully and I realized that the steps and syntax are different for this release.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/3.1_and_xe.html
Follow this link and read the instructions carefully.
In the previous release the syntax for the first step was:
@apexins pwd SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
pwd being your admin password.
In this release, you just type:
@apexins SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
Of course, I didn't do that. I finally caught the error when I read the error log. It thought my password was the tablespace parameter.
Next is an additional step:
@apxchpwd
The next two steps seems to be the ones that we all mess up on.
@APEX_HOME/apex/apxldimg.sql APEX_HOME
@APEX_HOME/apex/apxxepwd.sql password
(where password is the password of the Application Express internal ADMIN account)
I unzipped apex 3.1 to c:\apextmp. This created a subdirectory c:\apextmp\apex
The way to run the scripts is to do the following (assuming my admin pwd is admin123)
cd c:apextmp\apex
c:\apextmp\apex> sqlplus sys/admin123 as sysdba
sql> @apxldimg.sql c:\apextmp
sql> @apxxepwd admin123
I hope this helps
David P

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