Deb Squeeze 32bit 10g XE install, but no APEX

Question

I have a Debian Squeeze system. I downloaded and installed the debian (stable) distribution of the Oracle 10g XE database from the Oracle download page (behind the archived versions tab). So, Oracle is running. But I can't access the homepage.
I'm confused by several things:
Is Tomcat required to run apex? -- "well known" port 8080 is the same port that the apex listener defaults to - Also the APEX listener supplied as a separate product from Oracle is a war file.
Is the Oracle 10g XE, Homepage (accessed at http://localhost:8080/apex) the same as the apex_listener and apex engine found separately on the Oracle download page?
(the engine is aka Oracle APEX standalone product currently on release 4.1
the APEX listener is on version 1.1.3)
There are no war files in the Linux, deb or rpm downloads for 10g, XE from Oracle. The DatabaseHomePage.sh script indicates that apex is war. Is it?
I edited the script (as it appeared in the deb file) - it had a MS (Windows) variable in it:
#!/bin/sh
# DatabaseHomePage.sh - part of deb package.
for i in firefox mozilla konqueror ; do
if test -x "/usr/bin/$i"; then
# /usr/bin/$i http://127.0.0.1:%httpport%/apex
/usr/bin/$i http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex
exit $?
fi
done
Should there be something called apex in the deb download?
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Jari,
Is it OK to have Tomcat installed and using port 8080 and have apex also being served on port 8080?
I can connect from the command line to my localhost sid (XE), and I can also connect via sqldeveloper.
So, I confident that the oracle for Debain (for 32 bit) systems from the Oracle website installs and works properly. What I can't get working is APEX.
The listener port for XE was set to port 1523, so as to not interfer with another instance that on port 1521.
The http port that I originally put sid XE on during installation (during the "oracle_xe configure" exercise) was 80. What I expected would happen would be that Oracle would put an apex.html file in my /var/www directory that would kick off apex, but there was nothing. Now I sort of understand that Oracle apex is part of the database, and it is an http connection from the db to the browser - I think !!??
I guess it goes through Apache also?
The way I think my Oracle instance is set up is to serve http via URL:"http:/localhost:80/apex" (I use Iceweasel). It doesn't work. Is there some way to check how my database (10.2 xe) thinks it is set up?
What I ultimately after is getting apex working on my localhost.
In the process I've installed the db, apex 4.0.2 standalone and listener 1.0.2 along with Tomcat 6. So, things are a bit muddled.
Now I'm back to just tying to get EPG working with a browser.
thanks
Edited by: jarola on Oct 1, 2011 10:10 AM
10G XE Database Home Page , is Apex.