How to resolve ORA-31001 for dbms_network_acl_admin.create_acl on Windows

Question

Hi:
I am using 11gR1 on Windows Server 2003, and trying to setup XMLDB web services and got ora-31001. I Did :
begin
DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN.DROP_ACL('localhost.xml');
dbms_network_acl_admin.create_acl(
acl => 'localhost.xml'
,description => 'ACL for 127.0.0.1'
,principal => 'myname'
,is_grant => true
,privilege => 'connect');
dbms_network_acl_admin.assign_acl('localhost.xml', '127.0.0.1');
end;
And got following errors:
ORA-31001: Invalid resource handle or path name "/sys/acls/localhost.xml"
ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XDB", line 331
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_NETWORK_ACL_ADMIN", line 392
ORA-06512: at line 2
It seems to be complaining about the default directory “/sys/acls”. How do I do it in Windows? It does not help even if I created a "c:\sys\acls"
Thanks in advnace for your help,
Richard

Answer 1

The security structure /issue it was refering too ("/sys/acls/localhost.xml") is not outside the database. It refers to the XDB repository WebDAV resource structures IN the database (so not on OS or otherwise) which are protected via access control lists. Also you need a database user / the database privileges to create and alter ACL settings. Those ACL's ACE's etc themself are stored in an XML file (your dealing with XMLDB, so what else ;-) ).