Re: ords/tomcat help

From: Shastry(DBA) <"Shastry>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 10:11:05 -0600
Message-ID: <CAFQkUXQUoi6L0jA-dw5_sFfGVzZOBF+h660VeVgsv9oZQwHCnA_at_mail.gmail.com>





Hi Jeff,

Why don’t you switch to web logic ORDS APEX combination? You don’t need additinal license if you install weblogic and deploy ORDS on top of it. I did it successfully last week.

Thanks,
Ananth

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:45 AM, Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> I would recommend an ORDS validate after every APEX upgrade and DB patch.
>
> $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar ords.war validate
>
> I would recommend an APEX validate after every DB patch/upgrade. Easy to
> add to your scripts and it just makes sure everything is happy.
>
> CONN / AS SYSDBA
> --ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER=pdb1;
> SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
> EXEC SYS.validate_apex;
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:19 PM Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net> wrote:
>
>> Oh, cool! I knew about 'java -jar ords.war standalone', but I never knew
>> about 'java -jar ords.war validate'.
>>
>> I learn something new every day.....
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 8:41 AM Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Running java -jar ords.war validate for your connection pool might help
>>> – it’ll confirm everything is there that needs to be there to service that
>>> db and/or APEX
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 30, 2019 8:36 AM
>>> *To:* backseatdba_at_gmail.com
>>> *Cc:* anthonycsanchez_at_gmail.com; oracle-l-freelist <
>>> oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>>> *Subject:* Re: ords/tomcat help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> I by no means am an expert on this "stuff", as there are so many
>>> different moving parts. But, I've also had my installation up and running
>>> for probably around 15 years or so, since like HTMLDB 3? My system sounds
>>> similar to yours, but I'm running on Windows Server 2012 R2, Tomcat 7, ORDS
>>> 3. I'll be starting another post with a new issue I've been tasked with
>>> implementing shortly, it deals with SAML 2.0 in this environment.
>>>
>>> Anyway, some of these may be legacy id's from previous installs that
>>> never got removed, and I may have some security violations. But, perhaps
>>> this may get you to connect, and then others can chime in with what I may
>>> have incorrectly set.
>>>
>>> In Oracle, I have 5 users that seem to have bearing on Apex and the web.
>>> They are:
>>>
>>> Apex_050000 (this one is version dependent)
>>>
>>> Apex_Listener
>>>
>>> Apex_public_user
>>>
>>> Apex_rest_public_user
>>>
>>> ORDS_public_user
>>>
>>> In my installation, all of them have the same password as what I used in
>>> the ORDS setup, and all 5 of the accounts are unlocked and not expired.
>>> With this, you should be able to at least connect correctly to Apex through
>>> your webserver. But, as I said, this configuration may not be properly
>>> secured either. Hopefully after you can establish a connection, then others
>>> can chime in with the proper combination of which accounts to lock, etc.
>>>
>>> Bill Ferguson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:17 PM Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Anthony. I tried that and I ended up with a different error. So
>>> I decided to just delete all the apex_xx.xml files cause some of them were
>>> dated really old. I then ran
>>>
>>> $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar ords.war
>>>
>>> It then walked me through setup and and recreated those xml files. This
>>> time I was getting invalid password for apex|pu. I tried your method for
>>> encrypting the file for that one but no luck. So I just put the actual
>>> password in the apex_pu.xml file. I can't get it to re-encrypt the file.
>>> However after I start ords I am not getting this message on the page.
>>> Feels like I am getting closer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:19 AM anthony Sanchez <
>>> anthonycsanchez_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> do you see this user getting locked out? APEX_PUBLIC_USER?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> have you tried re-encrypting your good working password for apex public
>>> user in apex.xml?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think if you put an ! followed by your password and restart tomcat it
>>> will be reencrpyted.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> for example if your working password is Password you would change this
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
>>>
>>> <!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
>>>
>>> <properties>
>>>
>>> <comment>Saved on Sun Jul 26 22:34:51 MDT 2015</comment>
>>>
>>> *<entry
>>> key="db.password">_at_05D745EDD5A466F362FF08A22A072DB77A9E8D55EBED8029D9</entry>*
>>>
>>> <entry key="db.username">APEX_PUBLIC_USER</entry>
>>>
>>> </properties>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> to this
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
>>>
>>> <!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
>>>
>>> <properties>
>>>
>>> <comment>Saved on Sun Jul 26 22:34:51 MDT 2015</comment>
>>>
>>> *<entry key="db.password">!Password</entry>*
>>>
>>> <entry key="db.username">APEX_PUBLIC_USER</entry>
>>>
>>> </properties>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:10 PM Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep I manually logged into each apex user account with the same
>>> password. Still having same issue. I am not getting errors about apex pu,
>>> al, or rt just this pool named |apex|
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> WARNING: The pool named: |apex|| is invalid and will be ignored: The
>>> username or password for the connection pool named apex, are invalid,
>>> expired, or the account is locked
>>>
>>> Sep 06, 2018 2:07:17 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 1:58 PM Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You could run the install again – but also make sure the apex public
>>> user is ALSO unlocked
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 6, 2018 4:25 PM
>>> *To:* Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
>>> *Cc:* Mark Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net>; Stefan Knecht <
>>> knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com>; oracle-l-freelist <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>>> *Subject:* Re: ords/tomcat help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jeff, Which apex user account. I checked and APEX_PUBLIC_USER
>>> password is matching.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:57 PM Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well that error is a pretty big one.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ORDS can’t establish a connection pool to run your APEX app.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Change the apex user password in the database to match what you have in
>>> the ords config files or vice versa.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 6, 2018 3:27 PM
>>> *To:* Mark Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net>
>>> *Cc:* Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com>; oracle-l-freelist <
>>> oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>>> *Subject:* Re: ords/tomcat help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Apex 18.1
>>>
>>> ORDS 18.2ZZZ
>>>
>>> Apacke Tomcat 9.0.10
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the only warning I see in the logs
>>>
>>> WARNING: The pool named: |apex|| is invalid and will be ignored: The
>>> username or password for the connection pool named apex, are invalid,
>>> expired, or the account is locked
>>> Sep 04, 2018 9:51:43 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running in standalone mode and I don't see any other errors.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:48 AM Mark J. Bobak <mark_at_bobak.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, try turning ords.war in Standalone mode.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> java -jar ords.war standalone
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It should be clear if you're missing any Oracle DBA users, or if you
>>> have the wrong password for any of them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 13:39 Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Restart ORDS after setting them to true, BTW.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Turn those two on in your defaults.xml in the ORDS installation
>>> directory:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <entry key="debug.debugger">false</entry>
>>>
>>> <entry key="debug.printDebugToScreen">false</entry>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Then you should get more information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am working on setting up Tomcat/ORDS/APEX for the first time. I have
>>> a Linux box with Tomcat installed. I followed Tim's notes for ORDS install
>>>
>>>
>>> https://oracle-base.com/articles/misc/oracle-rest-data-services-ords-installation-on-tomcat
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__oracle-2Dbase.com_articles_misc_oracle-2Drest-2Ddata-2Dservices-2Dords-2Dinstallation-2Don-2Dtomcat&d=DwMFaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=N2hWu5HFsaIjmMkjQbnlokJ7uinNZMgPVk8rqPT9esM&m=8hz_O6HCQtyTzEIICpqaqhCr5-PypXfBkcFQg15atGM&s=KPj0MSF4snLbyTibImr6x9psDGcy6ymSAiQOqUnluOk&e=>
>>>
>>> But when I try to go the site I get the Oracle REST Data Services page
>>> but with a 404 Not Found.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I copied the APEX images to my /tomcat/webapps/i folder. What is
>>> usually the cause of this?
>>>
>>> Appreciate any help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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