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

"Mark C. Stock" <mcstockX_at_Xenquery .com> wrote in message news:s4qdnZXCWvVrIEHeRVn-vg_at_comcast.com...
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> "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.
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>> 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.
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>> Any ideas?
>> Sammy1
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> you should waste a little time reading the install docs and letting us
> know what OS you're on ;-)
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> sounds like you need to start the OracleXE services.
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> have you tried manually starting them (method depends on OS)?
> are they set to start on OS startup? if so, have you tried rebooting?
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> ++ mcs
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also, could you post a little more detail on what you tried and what the results were?

++ mcs Received on Sun Jan 29 2006 - 07:08:31 CST