How can I upgrade to 10g Portal?

Question

Hi All,
I seem to have made a rod for my back...
We have a portal instance (Version 9.0.2.3) that is running on old obsolete hardware. It is connected to a portal repository that is running in a seperate RAC enabled database (Customer database as Oracle call it).
We wish to transfer to 10g Release 2 and have therfore installed a brand new 10g Infrastructure & Middle Tier. (Portal Version 10.1.2.0.2 Build139)
I have also cloned our RAC Customer database to another server for test purposes.
Customer databases are running on Windows, Applications servers are Linux.
I am thinking that I need to upgrade the Customer portal repository to 9.0.4 and then to 10.1.2.0.2. (Can I do this without it being connected to the mid tier?) and then configure the middle tier to connect to the customer database.
Sorry but the more Oracle documentation I read the more confused I get. Each version seems to say something different.
Thanks
Steve

Answer 1

I already looked at this one. There is no Middle Tier home on the database host. It's just a vanilla database node. It has an Oracle 9.2 home and a Forms 6 Home.
The precheck logfile lists the correct Oracle_home as D:\Oracle\ora92
Environment variables:
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ALLUSERSPROFILE: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA: C:\Documents and Settings\XXX\Application Data
CLIENTNAME: Console
COMMONPROGRAMFILES: C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME: MIS6401
COMSPEC: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
CURRENT_DIR: D:\Patch\log
CYGWIN: tty
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK: NO
HOMEDRIVE: C:
HOMEPATH: \Documents and Settings\XXX
HOMESHARE: \\MIS\XXX
JSERV: D:\oracle\ora92/Apache/Jserv/conf
LIB: C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\OracleClient.Net\
LOGONSERVER: \\CDC2
MRUA_JAR: ..\..\..\jlib\mrua.jar
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 1
OPCA_JAR: ..\..\..\assistants\opca\jlib\opca.jar
ORACLE_HOME: D:\Oracle\Ora92
ORACLE_SID: wh
OS: Windows_NT
PATH: D:\Oracle\Ora92/bin;../../../perl/5.6.1/bin/MSWin32-x86;D:\oraNT\bin;D:\oracle\ora92\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;D:\oracle\ora92\jre\1.4.2\bin;D:\Borland\Delphi7\Bin;D:\Borland\Delphi7\Projects\Bpl\;D:\Programs\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;D:\oracle\ora92\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.3.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;D:\Programs\OpenSSH\bin;D:\oraNT\jdk\bin
PATHEXT: .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PERL5LIB: ../../../perl/site/5.6.1/lib;../../../perl/5.6.1/lib
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 15 Model 15 Stepping 0, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 15
PROCESSOR_REVISION: 0f00
PROGRAMFILES: C:\Program Files
PROMPT: $P$G
PWD: D:/Patch/PortalCD/portal/admin/plsql
REPCA_HOME: ..\..\..
REPCA_JAVA: ..\..\..\jdk\bin\java
SESSIONNAME: Console
SQLPATH: .;owa;D:\Patch\log\prechktmp/gen;upg/frwk;sql;wwc
SYSTEMDRIVE: C:
SYSTEMROOT: C:\WINDOWS
TEMP: C:\DOCUME~1\XXX\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP: C:\DOCUME~1\XXX\LOCALS~1\Temp
UPGARGS: -precheck -l D:\Patch\log\upgrade.log -t D:\Patch\log\tmp -oh D:\Oracle\Ora92
USERDNSDOMAIN: XXX
USERDOMAIN: XXX
USERNAME: XXX
USERPROFILE: C:\Documents and Settings\XXX
WINDIR: C:\WINDOWS
WORKING_DIR: d:\Patch\PortalCD\portal\admin\plsql\
WV_GATEWAY_CFG: D:\oracle\ora92\Apache\modplsql\cfg\wdbsvr.app
Some of the entries for MRUA_JAR & OPCA_JAR look a bit odd.
Maybe there should be a trailing slash on the ORACLE_HOME? Clutching at straws I know, but I've seen it happen before.
No wasn't that. Didn't want unix style slashes either.
It definately looks like the problem in Note 334828.1 but setting the correct oracle_home is not fixing it.