Forms 11g - Weblogic Server - Command prompts stay open?

Question

is it right, that i have to logon to the windows server, start the Admin Server for Weblogic Server domain manually,
if i want to go to the Admin Console on port 7001?
is it right, that i have to logon to the windows server, start the Weblogic Server WLS_FORMS manually,
if i want to start any forms?
Today i just want to set up an Oracle application server 11g like we would need for our customers.
So i have installed Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g on a Windows 2003 Datacenter Server in US Version named "center".
I took the US Version just for testing, cause on my machines the Oracle installer runs in german and
may this make the problems i had until now.
i installed the following components:
Server Components
Oracle Forms
Oracle Rerports
Developer Tools
None
Management Components
Enterprise Manager
System Components
Oracle HTTP Server OHS
Clustered: No
Summary after the normal 70 minutes installaltion-prozess:
Type: Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer Installation
     Configuration Options
          Middleware Home Location: C:\Oracle\Middleware
          Oracle Home Location: C:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1
          Oracle Instance Location: C:\Oracle\Middleware\asinst_1
          Oracle Instance: asinst_1
          Domain Option: Create Domain
          Domain Name: ClassicDomain
          Domain Home: C:\Oracle\Middleware/user_projects/domains/ClassicDomain
          Domain Host Name: center
          Domain Port No: 7001
          User Name: weblogic
          Automatic Port Detection: true
          Administrator Console: http://center:7001/console
          EM Console: http://center:7001/em
          EMAgent URL: http://center:5155/emd/main
          Forms URL: http://center:8888/forms/frmservlet
          Reports URL: http://center:8888/reports/rwservlet
h5. First of six installations whithout failures! Yep!
I pressed finish to close the installer and wait about 6 minutes til it was gone ...
^(at the end of this message there is a screenshot from my "half-dead-windows-server" ...)^
when rebooting there must four cmd.exe and one javaw.exe beeing "hard-killed" before shutting down...
After windows reboot:
- http://center:7001/console - not reachable
- http://center:7001/em - not reachable
- EMAgent URL: http://center:5155/emd/main - reachable (with Congratulations :) )
- http://center:8888 - reachable - 11g welcome page
- http://center:8888/forms/frmservlet - not reachable - Failure of server APACHE bridge
- http://center:8888/reports/rwservlet - not reachable - Failure of server APACHE bridge
The Windows Service Oracle Prozess Manager (asinst_1) is up an running.
opmnctl status:
emagent_asinst_1 - alive
ReportsServer_center_asinst_1 - alive
ohs1 - alive
where is a forms_asinst_1-process or something like this ??
after starting the Admin Server for Weblogic Server domain manually,
inclusiv entering weblogic username and password, waiting about 4 Minutes,
http://center:7001/console is reachable.
Under environment / servers / Control in the Weblogic Console, i try to start wls_forms.
Message
For server WLS_FORMS, the Node Manager associated with machine center is not reachable.
All of the servers selected are currently in a state which is incompatible with this operation or are not associated with a running Node Manager or you are not authorized to perform the action requested. No action will be performed.
- may i can set a password somewhere? i did not found ...
So i start manually the Weblogic Server WLS_FORMS
inclusiv entering weblogic username and password and waiting about 2 Minutes.
Then the WLS_FORMS Server in the Weblogic Admin Console is running.
h5. I log off from the windows console and all manually started servers and services are down. *(?!)*
h5. Is there another way to start the forms server without having dos-boxes open ?
h6. Windows tasks after installation Oracle Middleware 11g
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Edited by: Magoo on Jul 24, 2009 11:38 AM

Answer 1

For the benefit of any other users discovering this thread we have a new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g 'Failure of server Apache Bridge' Troubleshooting support document - available via My Oracle Support (formerly known as Metalink)
Check out
Oracle Middleware 11g - Troubleshooting the Error "Failure of server APACHE bridge" [ID 1304095.1]
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=1304095.1&type=NOT