Re: ords/tomcat help

Have I missed something? Since when did WebLogic become free for ORDS use? I've not read that anywhere.

Cheers

Tim...

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 4:11 PM Shastry(DBA) <shastry17_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> -- Bill Ferguson
>>>>
>>>

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