HTML DB 10g installation problem on linux HTTP-503 ORA-604

Question

I have a problem after the installation of HTML DB from the linux 10g R2 companion image.
I installed HTML DB and HTTP server in one go, on an new system that only has the default orcl database installed. I run Red Hat enterprise linux on a x86_64 system.
The HTML DB installation took a long time, but gave no errors.
When I access the http://hostname:7777/pls/htmldb url I get an “This server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.”-error.
But :7777 works fine and give me the http server default page.
In my Apache error log I see the following errors:
[Thu Dec  8 13:28:42 2005] [error] [client 10.11.121.20] [ecid: 1134048522:10.14.66.23:28193:0:1,0] mod_plsql: /pls/htmldb/htmldb HTTP-503 ORA-604
I looked at several internet sources, played with my marvel.conf and my dads.conf but to no avail. My oracle home is different from my html db home. There is no ./network/admin/tnsnames.ora in my HTML_DB _HOME. Should there be? One solution in the faq even told me to copy the htmldb tnsnames.ora over my db tnsnames.ora, but the installation did not create one for me.
When should I use a dads.conf instead of marvel.conf? I don't understand the need for this second file. I tried to also use it, because some solutions and the post-installation instructions hinted on doing it. But then I get a different error in the logs about a double DAD.
When I login through sqlplus in the orcl database with the HTMLDB_PUBLIC_USER and my password (that was created during the installation) it works, but I don't see any tables (yet?). So the account is not locked. But should I see some tables when I do “select table_name from user_tables; ?
I probably missing something obvious here, but I'm a bit of a oracle newby.
Any help is appreciated,
Erik

Answer 1

Thanks Diemar,
It worked.
I stopped all oracle process and services.
I then logged out and in again as oracle to see if the unset stuck.
I then started my listener, databases, isqlnet and em.
I then started the httpd with:
${HTMLDB_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl start
opmnctl: opmn started
${HTMLDB_HOME}/opmn/bin/opmnctl startproc
this still gave some errors and the httpd was not started:
ias-component=HTTP_Server
opmnctl: starting opmn managed processes...
================================================================================opmn id=aberlour.uni.mdx.ac.uk:6200
0 of 1 processes started.
ias-instance id=standalone
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ias-component/process-type/process-set:
HTTP_Server/HTTP_Server/HTTP_Server
Error
--> Process (pid=3389)
failed to start a managed process after the maximum retry limit
Log:
/mdx/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/http/opmn/logs/HTTP_Server~1
last lines in this log where:
05/12/08 15:18:50 Stop process
/mdx/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/http/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl stop: httpd stopped
05/12/08 15:31:55 Start process
/mdx/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/http/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl start: execing httpd
05/12/08 15:31:57 Start process
/mdx/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/http/Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl start: execing httpd
I then added the PlsqlNLSLanguage line back into the marvel.conf
which now looks:
AddType text/xml xbl
AddType text/x-component htc
Alias /i/ /mdx/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/http/Apache/Apache/images/
<Location /pls/htmldb>
Order deny,allow
PlsqlDocumentPath docs
AllowOverride None
PlsqlDocumentProcedure wwv_flow_file_manager.process_download
PlsqlDatabaseConnectString xxxxxx.xxxxx.ac.uk:1521:orcl ServiceNameFormat
PlsqlNLSLanguage "ENGLISH_UNITED KINGDOM.AL32UTF8"
PlsqlAuthenticationMode Basic
SetHandler pls_handler
PlsqlDocumentTablename wwv_flow_file_objects$
PlsqlDatabaseUsername HTMLDB_PUBLIC_USER
PlsqlDefaultPage htmldb
PlsqlDatabasePassword @BWIuxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxid4Y4t8b9g==
Allow from all
</Location>
and I started the http again, and it works fine.
Problem solved. I will try to fine tune it so I'll get the basic LANG setting back in linux but without the .UTF-8 postfix.
thanks for your help,
Erik