Oracle database XE - Configure HTTP Server

Question

Goodmorning,
I've installed Oracle database 10g Express Edition ona linux server.
Now I can navigate with my browser to the url
     http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/apex
and this is ok to manage my db.
My problem is that I can navigate to the url
     http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/sys
and other subdirectories using my browser.
I want configure my Oracle HTTP server to allow navigation to APEX but prevent navigation to sys direcotries.
I can't change configuration in
     APEX->Administration->Manage HTTP Access
setting "Available only from local server" becuse in this way I couldn't access to APEX too from my client workstation.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi,
the usual way would be to install an Apache http server in front of XE and configure it to be a proxy.
Using an Apache2 you would change the httpd.conf like this:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
  RewriteEngine On
  ProxyRequests Off
  SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
  SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(([^/]+)(/.*)*)$
  RewriteCond %2 =apex [OR]
  RewriteCond %2 =i [OR]
  RewriteCond %2 =public
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8080/%1 [P]Or you can search the XE-forum for 'proxy'.
If you cannot use an Apache for any reasons (but it is definitely recommended) then you might be able to change the acls for the xmldb folder SYS.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&hs=tb3&q=change+acl+xmldb+sys+folder&btnG=Suche&lr=
Regards,
~Dietmar.