Installing Oracle 10g personal edition

Question

Hi,
I am trying to install Oracle 10g personal edition on ubuntu. After installing I ran the following command: /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure and by mistake gave a port number for HTTP port on which already another server is running. But now I am unable to change my configuration settings.
Everytime I give the command /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure it says "Oracle Database 10g Express Edition is already configured"
How can I change the configuration setting now? Do I need to reinstall it? Would be a great help, if somebody can tell me.
Thanks,
tulip

Answer 1

In oder for you to handle ports and monitor port assignment follow these steps:
SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Mi Jan 25 11:44:33 2006
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Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Beta
SQL> -- get current status
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport as "HTTP-Port"
            , dbms_xdb.getftpport as "FTP-Port" from dual;
HTTP-Port   FTP-Port
     8080          0You can change the http port and the ftp port to whatever you like (keep in mind that you need special privileges for ports < 1024 on Unix/Linux systems).
SQL> -- set http port and ftp port
SQL> begin
2    dbms_xdb.sethttpport('80');
3    dbms_xdb.setftpport('2100');
4  end;
5  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport as "HTTP-Port"
            , dbms_xdb.getftpport as "FTP-Port" from dual;
HTTP-Port   FTP-Port
       80       2100If you only want to use the database without allowing access via http or ftp then you can disable both:
SQL> -- disable http and ftp access
SQL> begin
2    dbms_xdb.sethttpport('0');
3    dbms_xdb.setftpport('0');
4  end;
5  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> -- get current status
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport as "HTTP-Port"
            , dbms_xdb.getftpport as "FTP-Port" from dual;
HTTP-Port   FTP-Port
        0          0~ Madrid