Form's Port Configuration Doubt

Question

Hi,
I installed weblogic 10.3.4 on Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bits and Forms 11g 11.1.1.4 afer form's intallation i save the installation's resume, this is the resume i got:
Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer Installation
                Configuration Options
                               Middleware Home Location: C:\u01\app\oracle\product\Middleware
                               Oracle Home Location: C:\u01\app\oracle\product\Middleware\as_1
                               Oracle Instance Location: C:\u01\app\oracle\product\Middleware\asinst_1
                               Oracle Instance: asinst_1
                               Domain Option: Create Domain
                               Domain Name: FormsDomain
                               Domain Home: C:\u01\app\oracle\product\Middleware\user_projects\domains\FormsDomain
                               Domain Host Name: SRVWEBLOGIC
                               Domain Port No: 7001
                               User Name: weblogic
                               Automatic Port Detection: true
                               Administrator Console: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:7001/console
                               EM Console: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:7001/em
                               EMAgent URL: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:5155/emd/main
                               Forms URL: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/forms/frmservlet
                               Reports URL: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/reports/rwservletIn the weblogic's administration console i can see the managed server's ports as:
WLS_FORMS    -> 9001
WLS_REPORTS  -> 9002But in the installation's resume the port are 8090
Forms URL: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/forms/frmservlet
Reports URL: http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/reports/rwservletI tried the url's from the installation's resume:
http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/forms/frmservlet
http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/reports/rwservlet
and they do not work, but if i change their ports to 9001 and 9002 as they appears in the weblogic's console they work
So i have some doubts:
-What is the porpuse of this ports ??
-Why the Forms's url and Reports's url from the installation's resume are not working ??
-can i change the WLS_REPORTS's port ??
-there is a problem if for example i change the WLS_REPORTS's port to 8090 ??
-i have created a new report server with opmnctl createcomponent and i can see that when i access to it, i have to use the same reports's port 9002, is there a way to change the new report_server's port ??
Regards
Carlos

Answer 1

8090 would be the port of the Apache HTTP Server, 9001 and 9002 are the ports of the managed weblogic servers running the forms and the reports servlets. You can reach both weblogic servers under port 8090 as the HTTP Server talks via mod_weblogic to the weblogic servers. If you want to change the ports of the weblogic servers you can do so in the weblogic server console, but also you need to change them in the config files of Apache if you want them both to be reachable under the Apache port. Those files are located under
ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1/moduleconf
They should be pretty self explanatory.
I tried the url's from the installation's resume:
http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/forms/frmservlet
http://SRVWEBLOGIC:8090/reports/rwservlet
and they do not work, but if i change their ports to 9001 and 9002 as they appears in the weblogic's console they workSee also in those config files. For the configuration of mod_weblogic you need to provide the hostname, so maybe you have a problem with your naming resolution (at least this was mostly the problem in my case). See that you get a fixed IP for your server if you don't have one already and check your DNS entries of your DNS server. If everything else fails you can still provide the IP adress instead the hostname.
As for all your other questions the base problem should be the same; see that you get mod_weblogic running, and everything should be running via port 8090. If you want to change that listener port you can do so in the httpd.conf under
ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1
cheers