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Question

Hello!
Help me, please!
I need to print reports in PDF.
What I did:
1 I installed Apache Tomcat 6.0.14
2 I installed Cocoon 2.1.10
All works fine! http://localhost:8080/Cocoon opened OK
3 I copied fop_post to \apache-tomcat-6.0.14\webapps\cocoon\ , now I have apache-tomcat-6.0.14\webapps\cocoon\fop_post\sitemap.xmap
4 In apex I choose : Oracle BI Publiser - Standart Support
print server host address 192.168.1.112
print server port 8080
print server script \cocoon\fop_post\
Now I make simple report consists from 1 column from a simple table like emp table, and choose.
Output format - PDF
Report Layout - Default Report Layout
Apex is English.
I read that can be problem if I'll write use point in (example) 0.5 and everywhere I used 1.
When I run the programm and click print button I have error message : Acrobat could not open 'a[1].pdf' because is either not a supported file type or because
the file has been damage ......
I saved this file and opened with text editor but there was nothing and size of this file is 0 kb.
HEINZ, show me to slash/backslash and after I change to /cocoon/fop_post/ appear new problem: now APEX LONG TIME WAITING AND DO NOTHING.
PLEASE, explain me where is problem and how to solve it?
Thank you!!!

Answer 1

Hello,
It's seems that the version of Apache coming with Oracle 9.2 is used instead of Apache-Tomcat is a normal behavior?Ok just so this is up front , what Oracle ships and my Cocoon setup are two different things and shouldn't effect each other.
The only place the Cocoon server and APEX should touch is the print server URL set in the Instance Administration . The link in the page should look like it goes to your APEX instance, the first one, because what it does is tell the APEX instance to post the XML to the print server
When we manually change the port number to So your doing this by hand and trying to use in a browser locations bar , this will not work it's not supposed to work that. Or did you actually change your print server URL in Instance Administration
What do your Tomcat logs say? If they don't say anything then the XML post isn't even touching Tomcat / Cocoon.
I'll try and help out as much as I can but I've done multiple installations of Cocoon and APEX and each has worked everytime as advertised, well one didn't work and that was when I messed up the URL in Instance Administration and most people that's the problem they have, either wrong/extra slash's or misspelling or just forgetting to do it.
Regards,
Carl
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