Re: ords/tomcat help

They have done similar restricted-use licenses with OHS in the past if you used it for modplsql / apex:

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/learnmore/faq-3561782.html#three

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:50 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> 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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