Setup of Customer Dev and Test environment

Question

Customer wants to set up a Dev and Test env for Apex on the same machine. Been trying to wrap my head around the way to do this. Seems like these are the options:
1) Separate databases, Two APEX homes, Two HTTP Servers
2) One database, different Workspaces, One APEX home, One HTTP Server
# 1 is the most 'pristine' from the perspective of separation of everything (and patching), but #2 seems like a more manageable environment. Only down side I see to #2 is that DEV can never have a newer release of APEX than TEST.
BTW -the customer wants TEST to look like PROD except during code push time. They also want TEST env refreshed regularly from PROD in between code releases.
Suggestions? Other options?
Thanks,
Dwight

Answer 1

Hello Dwight,
Check your dads.conf file. There is something like this:
<Location /pls/apex>
Order deny,allow
PlsqlDocumentPath              docs
AllowOverride                  None
PlsqlDocumentProcedure         wwv_flow_file_mgr.process_downloadd
PlsqlDatabaseConnectString     localhost:1521:XE ServiceNameFormat
PlsqlNLSLanguage               AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
PlsqlAuthenticationMode        Basic
SetHandler                     pls_handler
PlsqlDocumentTablename         wwv_flow_file_objects$
PlsqlDatabaseUsername          APEX_PUBLIC_USER
PlsqlDefaultPage               apex
PlsqlDatabasePassword          apex_public_user
PlsqlRequestValidationFunction wwv_flow_epg_include_modules.authorize
Allow from all
</Location>You can easily change the Location - /pls/apex - to (e.g.) /dev add another Location (/test) and provide it with the different connect strings.
Then you can access your Dev environment using http://localhost:7778/dev and Test with http://localhost:7778/test.
You can also change the (default) settings to your /i/ (virtual) directory to point to different dev and test directories.
Example:
Alias /dev/ "c:\Oracle\OAS\Apache/dev/images/"
Alias /tst/ "c:\Oracle\OAS\Apache/test/images/"
and change the value of the Image Prefix in your Application Definition accordingly.
Greetings,
Roel
http://roelhartman.blogspot.com/
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