Re: Oracle 10g express - cannot get the database home page

From: Mark C. Stock <mcstockX_at_Xenquery>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:06:53 -0500
Message-ID: <s4qdnZXCWvVrIEHeRVn-vg@comcast.com>

"Sammy1" <billreyn_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1138539549.554638.83140_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Downloaded OracleXE.exe, after installation could not
> get the database home page at http://127.0.0.1:8080/htmldb.
> Tried lots of times & tghings, always the same result.
>
> Error is 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' means the server
> is not running - and its not!
> There's no server on port 8080 running at all. Thank you
> Oracle once again for wasting huge amounts of my time
> in vain.
>
> Any ideas?
> Sammy1
>

you should waste a little time reading the install docs and letting us know what OS you're on ;-)

sounds like you need to start the OracleXE services.

have you tried manually starting them (method depends on OS)? are they set to start on OS startup? if so, have you tried rebooting?

++ mcs Received on Sun Jan 29 2006 - 07:06:53 CST