Portal development - trying to correct an Error

when trying to modify the "External Applications" portlet in Oracle Portal. how do I correct this.
Unexpected Error in wwptl_fapp_private.get_external_apps_list - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html dir=ltr>
<head>
<style>
a:link {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:FF0000}
a:visited {font:8pt/11pt verdana; color:#4e4e4e}
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<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
<title>The page cannot be found</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252">
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function Homepage(){
<!--
// in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
// res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm
//For testing use DocURL = "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#https://www.microsoft.com/bar.htm"
DocURL = document.URL;
//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skipping the res://
protocolIndex=DocURL.indexOf("://",4);
//this finds the ending slash for the domain server
serverIndex=DocURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);
//for the href, we need a valid URL to the domain. We search for the # symbol to find the begining
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BeginURL=DocURL.indexOf("#",1) + 1;
urlresult=DocURL.substring(BeginURL,serverIndex);
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function HtmlEncode(text)
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function TagAttrib(name, value)
return ' '+name+'="'+HtmlEncode(value)+'"';
function PrintTag(tagName, needCloseTag, attrib, inner){
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hi,
by 'modify' i assume you mean 'customize'.
could you please try the following:
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Make sure the URL assigned to "Query Path URL Prefix" parameter is NON-SSL and has a suffix of "/" at the tail end.
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