Configuring APEX in oracle 11.1.0.7.0: apex admin screen is blank

Question

I am trying to configure apex in a oracle 11g (11.1.0.7.0) and after running the apxconf script and unlocking the anonymous account, I get blank screen for http://hostname:8080/apex/apex_admin
same behavior for http://hostname:8080/apex
Any ideas on how to get past this?
Thanks,
Sireesha

Answer 1

Hi,
I installed Oracle 11.1.0.7.0 with APEX 3.2 about a month ago. I have been using Apex successfully to create an application. 3 days ago my pc was rebooted because Windows Media Player had used all the memory.
After the reboot, the Apex logon page is no longer available. I can't access the images folder, the logon page or the admin page I just get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
I have spent the last 3 days trawling the web for a solution but can't seem to find any answers to a similar problem,
No changes have been made to the pc other than the above, can anybody help me diagnose it?
select dbms_xdb.gethttpport from dual;
returns 8080
The output from lsnrctl status is
LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on 20-JUL-2009 12:53:59
Copyright (c) 1991, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=House)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Start Date 20-JUL-2009 12:46:24
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 7 min. 35 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File C:\Oracle\Product\11.1.0\Db\network\admin\listener.ora
Listener Log File c:\oracle\diag\tnslsnr\House\listener\alert\log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.1.10)(PORT=1521)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1521ipc)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=House)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=House)(PORT=21))(Presentation=FTP)(Session=RAW))
Services Summary...
Service "House.unitechit.co.uk" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "house", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "HouseXDB.unitechit.co.uk" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "house", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "House_XPT.unitechit.co.uk" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "house", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
I have just read above about the shared servers parameter
show parameter shared_server
returns shared_servers integer 1
I can connect to the database via Sqlplus and it continues to function correctly.
I have tried accessing:
http://192.168.1.10:8080/apex
http://house:8080/apex
http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex
and with /apex_admin
Can anybody give me any more help to diagnose this?
Many thanks,
Blackstone.