Installed 11g XE, Win7 Home, XE started ok, sqlplus access ok, but APEX not running

Question

I am installing XE 11g R2 32bit on windows 7 home premium 64bit.
I cannot get the home page to display:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/f?p=4950
http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex/
lsnrctl status is similar to below but WITHOUT this portion:
Service "xe" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "xe", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
I can run sql command line and connect as system
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport from dual;
GETHTTPPORT
8080
I can start/stop database.
I can restart OracleServiceXE/OracleXETNSListener with no errors.
In the log files inside app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\config\log, there is only 1 "error" in line 23 of cloneDBCreation.log
SQL> shutdown immediate;
ORA-01109: database not open
I think somehow the http server is not started because there's no process listening to 8080?
Anyone can offer insight into this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Please post output of
set
lsnrctl stat
Another simple measure is to rename listener.ora to, say, listener.ora.moved. Then bounce the listener. Without listener.ora, default parameters apply.
Make sure there are no firewall/security products in the way of database instance and listener communication.
Example lsnrctl output for reference (this one happens to come from an older Beta install):
C:\Users\>lsnrctl stat
LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Beta on 16-SEP-2011 11:39:15
Copyright (c) 1991, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC1)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias                     LISTENER
Version                   TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Beta
Start Date                06-SEP-2011 12:16:21
Uptime                    9 days 23 hr. 22 min. 53 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP                      OFF
Default Service           XE
Listener Parameter File   C:\Oracle\xe112beta\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\network\admin\li
Listener Log File         C:\Oracle\xe112beta\app\oracle\diag\tnslsnr\Host7\listener\alert\log.x
Listening Endpoints Summary...
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1ipc)))
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=Host7)(PORT=1521)))
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=Host7)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW))
Services Summary...
Service "CLRExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "XEXDB" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "xe", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "xe" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "xe", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfullyAbout XE Homepage. Important piece of info to look for is this kind of endpoint information:
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=Host7)(PORT=8080))(Presentation=HTTP)(Session=RAW))Without that "port" registered, you won't be able to access Homepage or any other Apex apps via EPG.
Edited by: orafad on Sep 16, 2011 11:37 AM
Edited by: orafad on Sep 16, 2011 11:39 AM