Upgrade to APEX 4.0

Hello to everybody,
i have a problem and i dont understand why. This problem is very popular but all solutions will not work or better i say i dont understand the solutions.
I wanted to upgrade my apex to 4.0. At the moment i use Oracle 10g Express Edition with the apex 2.0.
If i connect sys as sysdba with sqlplus this will work very well.
If i now do "@apexins SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/" i became the following error:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
All solutions say that this is a problem with the ORACLE_SID and the environment variables. These are my values for them:
export ORACLE_BASE=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/server
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export ORACLE_PATH=.:/ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0
export ORACLE_SID=xe
Did somebody see my failure? My last option was to create the initXE.ora in the dba folder. But this doesnt work.
Greetz,
bladepit

Hello,
if i do this the command sqlplus form the command line will not be found.
Edit:
If i set PATH to: $ORACLE_HOME/server/bin:$PATH then sqlplus will work but then i became the following error:
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory
Greetz,
bladepit
Edited by: bladepit on Jul 4, 2010 11:29 AM

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Error processing SSO authentication.
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ORA-06550: line 2, column 1: PLS-00201: identifier 'WWSEC_SSO_ENABLER_PRIVATE.GENERATE_REDIRECT' must be declared ORA-06550: line 1, column 45: PL/SQL: Statement ignored
This has been identified as BUG 12973090 - SSO WITH SPECIFIED PARTNER APPLICATION NAME FAILS WITH PLS-00201
Workaround:
The work around is to leave the “Partner Application Name” field blank in your authentication scheme. To do this go to: Application Builder > Your Application > Shared Components > Authentication Schemes > Click the Edit Icon on your authentication scheme that uses Single Sign-On > set the “Partner Application Name blank as follows > Apply Changes.
Oracle support says development is currently working the issue and the bug will not be fixed until APEX release 4.1.1.
Sean
Edited by: Sean Harris on Nov 2, 2011 7:59 AM

Masked HTML tags in substitution strings after upgrade to Apex 2.2

Hello, 
 
in my application developed with htmldb 2.0 I had the following scenario which worked fine until upgrade to 2.2: 
 
Requirement: a multiline text should be displayed as entered on a html report page. 
My solution: 
- a onload page process of the form 
select replace(description,chr(10),' ') into :P1_DESCRIPTION from mytable where id = :P1_ID; 
- and a page template containing 
... 
<td>&P1_DESCRIPTION.</td> 
... 
 
This worked in HTML DB 2.0. 
 
My problem: After upgrade to Apex 2.2 the report doesn't display the carriage returns anymore. Instead of interpreted BR tags I get masked BR tags printed as text: 
 this is the first line this is the second line 
It's quite obvious that the substitution mechanism changed in Apex 2.2. Any ideas how to change my app ?

Take a look at this thread:
Computed Region TItles being Escaped in Apex 2.2
You may have to change the type of your P1_DESCRIPTION item.

Missing information after upgraded to APEX 3.0 from APEX2.2

Hi,
I recently upgraded to APEX 3.0 from APEX2.2.
I had some problem with the images not displaying properly,which was fixed later.
But now my problem is when i try to navigate at the page Level of any application e.g
(HOME>APPLICATION BUILDER>APPLICATION 110>PAGE 2) i am not able to see the page Definition. Nothing shows up under the headings of Page Rendering,Page Processing,Shared Components.
Though i am able to create and run the application without any problems.
Thanks in advance for your help.

My guess is it has something to do with these errors in the Apache log:
[Fri Sep 28 13:20:56 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010856:198.239.171.21:1120:2876:360,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/htdocs/pls/htlmdb/f
[Fri Sep 28 13:21:48 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010908:198.239.171.21:1120:1296:357,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/htdocs/pls/htlmdb/f
[Fri Sep 28 13:21:55 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010915:198.239.171.21:1120:1296:358,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/htdocs/pls/htlmdb
[Fri Sep 28 13:22:43 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010963:198.239.171.21:1120:1536:375,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/images/spacer.gif
[Fri Sep 28 13:22:59 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010979:198.239.171.21:1120:3480:431,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/images/spacer.gif
[Fri Sep 28 13:23:04 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010984:198.239.171.21:1120:3480:433,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/images/spacer.gif
[Fri Sep 28 13:23:13 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191010993:198.239.171.21:1120:3480:435,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/images/spacer.gif
[Fri Sep 28 13:35:02 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191011702:198.239.171.21:1120:3532:333,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/htdocs/pls/apex/f
[Fri Sep 28 13:35:08 2007] [error] [client 198.239.171.30] [ecid: 1191011708:198.239.171.21:1120:3532:334,0] File does not exist: c:/oracle/product/10.2.0/http_1/apache/apache/htdocs/pls/apex/
There were no errors on the install.
Thanks,
Susan

Missing information after upgrade to APEX 3.0.1

Hi,
I recently upgraded to APEX 3.0 from APEX2.2.
I had some problem with the images not displaying properly,which was fixed later.
But now my problem is when i try to navigate at the page Level of any application e.g
(HOME>APPLICATION BUILDER>APPLICATION 110>PAGE 2) i am not able to see the page Definition. Nothing shows up under the headings of Page Rendering,Page Processing,Shared Components.
Though i am able to create and run the application without any problems.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Post this thread in the APEX forum - the help there is awesome!
Is this on a full database version or XE? If the latter, there is an XE forum too which requires registration.
Phil

Upgrade to APEX 4.2.3 apexins_con.sql gets: catconInit: database is not open Unexpected error encountered in catconInit; exiting

Upgrade to APEX 4.2.3 apexins_con.sql gets Unexpected error encountered in catconInit; exiting
I am attempting to install/upgrade apex 4.2.3 under Oracle12c in a Multi-Tenant configuration.
Here are the environmental details
Windows 7 64 bit
Apex 4.2.3
ORCL: CDB$ROOT
PDBORCL: PDB$SEED
Here is the current states of the pluggable databases
SQL> SELECT NAME,OPEN_MODE,TOTAL_SIZE/1024/1024/1024 FROM V$PDBS;
NAME OPEN_MODE TOTAL_SIZE/1024/1024/1024
PDB$SEED READ ONLY .263671875
PDBORCL READ WRITE .366210938
SQL>
This is the command that I am using to re-install/upgrade APEX:
# remove 4.2.2 installation
cd M:\apex_4.2.3\apex_4.2.3_en\apex
sqlplus /@ORCL as sysdba
@apxremov.sql << this was successful
quit
Install 4.2.3 installation
sqlplus /@ORCL as sysdba
@apexins_con.sql i10wrk SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/ << this failed
The APEX installation fails immediately with the following message:
catconInit: database is not open
Unexpected error encountered in catconInit; exiting
I cannot determine which database is not open. Both my CDB$ROOT and PDBORCL are reported as open (READ WRITE Mode).
Here is my Container database
SQL> SELECT SYS_CONTEXT ('USERENV', 'CON_NAME') FROM DUAL;
SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','CON_NAME')
CDB$ROOT
SQL> select instance_name,status from v$instance;
INSTANCE_NAME STATUS
orcl OPEN
SQL>
Here is the associated Pluggable Database
sqlplus /@PDBORCL as sysdba
SQL> select instance_name,status from v$instance;
INSTANCE_NAME STATUS
orcl OPEN
SQL> ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE PDBORCL OPEN;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE PDBORCL OPEN
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65019: pluggable database PDBORCL already open
I am confused…. Which database is not open?
The PDB$SEED is open in (READ ONLY) mode, but that is simply the template database. I don't think that ever needs to be open in (Read Write) mode.

sbing52,
I cannot vouch for the specific error that is being returned by catcon.pl, but I would try the following in your situation.
1. It seems you connect to CDB$ROOT and ran apxremov.sql. This only removed the common APEX option from CDB$ROOT. Your PDB is now in an inconsistent state, since APEX is no longer in the root. I would reconnect to CDB$ROOT and run apxremov_con.sql, make sure you use the one from the 4.2.3 distribution. The one in the ORACLE home will not work.
2. I would then re-run apexins_con.sql connect to CDB$ROOT. Also, you need to pass the proper parameters. Why are you passing i10wrk? You should be invoking it like:
@apexins_con.sql SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
Regards,
Jason

Minor bug upgrading from apex 3.1 to 4.1

I have an application written by someone else in apex 3.1. When upgrading to apex 4.1 some pages failed to work. This was because for some reason there was a condition on a process which had a begin and end when the condition was of type: "NOT EXISTS (SQL qurey returns no rows".
This was combines by the process being:
begin
null;
end;
Anyway I thought I might share obviously this was crap code but maybe the upgrade process should run better then that.

Hi Ben,
are you upgrading your existing machine or are you setting up a new environment with Oracle 11g and APEX 4.2? If that's the case you can use have a look at http://www.talkapex.com/2012/04/command-line-backups-for-apex.html which creates export scripts for all your workspaces and applications. Those export scripts can than easily be imported with SQL*Plus. Note: Please have a look at bug# 14777994 in our Known Issues list at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/apex-42-known-issues-1863578.html
If you are upgrading your existing database, you don't have to export/import. When you upgrade APEX to 4.2 all your existing workspaces and applications will be upgraded to 4.2 as well.
Regards
Patrick
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