The Apex 3.2 Installation Documentation - How to Install under 10g?

Question

I finally have a project that looks like a great candidate for Apex. My target database is 10g (as most of our customers are running that version).
My problem? [The Apex 3.2 installation guide|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/install.32/e13366/toc.htm]. Even though Apex 3.2 is said to be compatible with 10g, the docs speak about nothing but 11g. Is there an embedded PL/SQL gateway in 10g? The docs don't say. What if I want the external Apache http server? Well, I'm running 10.2.0.4 (in Windows, on my dev machine; version lines up with what we support for our customers). The 10g Companion CD I can download only comes with 10.2.0.1. Installing from that broke other things. (sqlplus now uses the 10.2.0.1 version and can't find my running server) So, I uninstalled the new stuff, and at least what used to work works again.
In short, I can't figure out what to do to get Apex installed properly, and the documentation isn't any help. I tried to post some feedback using the Contact us link ([http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14373_01/dcommon/html/feedback.htm]), but that page provides no means of actually sending any feedback in.
Does anyone know how to get this working under 10g? And, does anyone know how to get documentation feedback to Oracle?

Answer 1

dads.conf style
Changing *“<path that we copied images into>”*, host:port:service_name and apex_public_user_password
Alias /i/ “<path that we copied images into>”
AddType text/xml xbl
AddType text/x-component htc
<Location /pls/apex>
Order deny,allow
PlsqlDocumentPath docs
AllowOverride None
PlsqlDocumentProcedure wwwv_flow_file_mgr.process_download
PlsqlDatabaseConnectString host:port:service_name 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_password
Allow from all
</Location>
Example -
!http://www.tomklonowski.com/dads.PNG!
After you configured your Database and HTTP Server, which you can pretty much do with default installations, you have to install APEX 3.2 into your database and then configure your dads.conf. You need to create the tablespaces you want to use and run the @apexins.sql <tablespace for apex files> <tablespace for user files> <temporary tablespace> and <virtual image directory>.. Usually it comes with a TEMP tablespace, and you should create the alias as /i/ for the virtual image directory. So an example would be *@apexins.sql SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/*. You have to do this in SQLPLUS connected to your database as the system administrator. You need to do a few things after the installation of APEX. I.e. run the *@apxchpwd* script to change the admin password. Then the ALTER USER APEX_PUBLIC_USER ACCOUNT UNLOCK; command in SQLPLUS. Then ALTER USER APEX_PUBLIC_USER IDENTIFIED BY <your new password>;. Then you need to copy the APEX images folder into your Apache HTTP Server's folder.. in windows it would be something this xcopy /E /I <apex home location>\apex\images <Oracle HTTP Server Home>\Apache\images. ... And example would be xcopy /E /I C:\apex\apex\images C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db\Apache\Apache\images... Finally edit your dads.conf file, and then restart your opmn (<HTTP_SERVERHOME>\bin\opmnctl stopall then startall). This should get APEX 3.2 running for you, if you got the HTTP Server and Database up.