XE on remote Debian: Timeout on webconsole

Question

Hi Friends,
This one has been bothering me for a week, and no luck searching the forum.
Hope anyone can help me with this:
I successfully managed to install XE on a remote VPS.
It tells me to access through http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex but typing this into the browser is giving me a timeout in both Firefox and IE
(in dutch the message is :
De wachttijd voor de verbinding is verstreken
De server op [IP-ADDRESS] doet er te lang over om te antwoorden. )
the link I use in the browser is http://[IP-ADDRESS]:8080/apex the only response i get is using http://[IP-ADDRESS] --> this returns I think the Debian default message 'It Works !'
I tried
EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETLISTENERLOCALACCESS(FALSE);
and then restarting the DB but didn't help.
A former install on a Windows machine worked fine for me, any help by Linux guru's would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Marco

Answer 1

mak wrote:
Not quite,
The server running debian is hosted by another party, I only have FTP and SSH access to it (and http through my local browser, of course). So there is no way I can check the console through 'localhost', is there ?
The other party delivered me a 'clean' install and the only thing I installed was XE, following the Oracle install guide.
Since you have 'ssh', you have 'ssh -X'. WHich should give you access to the GUI and therefore the broiwser on that machine. SO you CAN test browser against localhost.
The only way for me to get an actual http response is when I fill in the IP-address in my browser. It shows me a HTML page stored in /var/www (Displaying 'It works!').
The call to apex results in the timeoutUntil you have a way to verify that Apex is working properly on the far end, you will have issues.
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+even though you can ping {apex-machine}, can telnet to apex-machine port 8080, have turned off any firewalls (and disabled SELinux if applicable) and nothing else is running on 8080 on the Apex machine.+
I can ping the machine OK.
I use PuTTY to work on the server (have not tried telnet, please advise)Command line: "telnet {host} 8080" ... if it responds with any gobbeldygooik, you can get there. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+telnet+on+windows for help.
I have no knowledge of firewalls or SELinux, let alone whether they are turned offFirewall on your (Windows) machine? (Look at the Control Panel ...)
How can I check what all is running on 8080 ?Windows and Linux COmmand line: Netstat http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+netstat+on+windows and http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+netstat+on+linux for help for help