Re: ords/tomcat help

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
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>
> 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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