this is my first post so I will try to be as descriptive as possible. Please let me know if there is anything missing:
So I am trying to install Oracle Express 11g, after I download the zip file "OracleXE112_Win32" – I unzip it, and open Disk 1 then setup. I go through the entire installation process without any problems. However when I go to open "Get Started" I come across the following error:
"Windows cannot find 'http:/.127.0.0.1:%HTTPPORT%/apex/f?p=4950'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. — After googling this, I was told to change %HTTPPORT% to 8080.
If I do this when I click on "Get Started" the following error shows up:
"Firefox can' establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8080."
I need this to work, so that I can sooner or later connect this to my eclipse, so that I can start doing my homework for my Java Programming class. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you so much!
Best Answer
I have found one solution for this problem. In order to explain my solution, I have used some aliases referring to my real parameters. These are:
At the beginning I had the same situation as mentioned above: I was unable to connect to the apex service even after successful installation.
First I have used the tnsping oracle utility:
This was the answer:
You see above a lot of currently active different IP addresses. Only the most important 127.0.0.1 is missing. I work on notebook so the network is "almost always" changing (WLAN, 3G, HSDPA, Ethernet etc.) only the localhost is fixed. And that was the real case of the trouble. (When I was working at the office environment connected to the office network it was also working.)
When I was in this situation I also started to use the lsnrctl oracle utility. I have seen the following:
You can see that the service for the apex at 8080 port is missing !!! I have tried also the normal ping which worked perfectly:
C:\Users\ME>ping MYHOST.mycompany.com
The result was:
You can realize the IPv6 address also exists in my tnsping trial as well.
So I have decided to define MYHOST in my local hosts file directly:
Testing now with ping:
And the answer:
At this point I have restarted (stopped and started again) the both running Oracle services (just for sure):
And look the miracle:
You can see the important line with PORT=8080 and service XE instance. So I am happy the getting started URL is working again.