Map Viewer Installation

Question

I am trying to initialize the 'stand alone' version of Map Viewer on a Windows 2003 Server.
I have the Java Development Kit and Java SDK environment installed and they seem to be functioning properly.
I edited the 'start.bat' batch program for Map Viewer to the proper path names and ran it to start the instance. It reached the point where I entered a password, then it stopped running and the command window ended. I now cannot repeat this.
I also edited some environment variables as per the oc4j readme instructions:
ORACLE_HOME : directory where oc4j_extended.zip was extracted.
JAVA_HOME : location of the J2SE SDK to be used.
I have no experience in this and so wonder if I have them correct or not?
Can anybody give me a suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi all,
Same situation here. I am frustrated with MapViewer Quickstart/stand alone installation. As suggested by the Readme.txt in the OC4J folder, i also edited the environment variables ORACLE_HOME for this installation (the JAVA_HOME is already set before, to the location of Java in my machine, so no change).
I set this ORACLE_HOME variable by something like Settings->Control Panel->System->Environment (in Windows). But the value suggested by this README 'violate' another setting that requires ORACLE_HOME variable specifies the complete path to the top-level directory that holds the Oracle environment.
In my case :
ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
other variable called CLASSPATH refers to this variable as well.
All right, then i tried to configure such that i have :
(1) ORACLE_HOME1 = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
(2) CLASSPATH, in this variable, all references to ORACLE_HOME were replaced with ORACLE_HOME1
(3) ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\OC4J
README of MapViewer Quickstart/stand alone says that :
(1) The command "oc4j -start" should work
(2) http://<oc4j_host>:8888 should get you to the OC4J welcome page.
But :
(1) The command "oc4j -start" really initialize, but never reach the oc4j administrator password entry; it freezes at "initialized".
(2) the url http://<oc4j_host>:8888 really gets me to the Oc4j welcome page
(3) additionally, this is fatal : Things like Database control (http://localhost:1158/em/console/logon/logon) and iSQL*plus are inaccessible.
And i could not log myself in SQL*plus or from GeoRasterViewer (the application loaded but could not log into DB)
When i re-configure things back to :
(1) ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
(2) CLASSPATH, in this variable, all references set to ORACLE_HOME again
The result is
(1) “oc4j –start” command fails, it says : “OC4J startup failed”
(2) could not reach the Oc4j welcome page (http://<oc4j_host>:8888)
(3) I can then access again the Database control (http://localhost:1158/em/console/logon/logon) and iSQL*plus from browser;
Also can log in SQL*plus and log in from GeoRasterViewer.
Please give us some suggestions..
thank you
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