Fully freeware APEX environment VI: Oracle HTTP server (installation)

This is post 6 in my series about a fully freeware APEX installation:

Information has been taken from

• The Oracle Install guidelines
• http://eelzinga.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/oracle-fusion-middleware-11g-ofm11g-on-centos-5/

Shut down EPG

The EPG is still running. To shut it down, open SQL*plus:conn

conn system
execute dbms_xdb.sethttpport(0);
exit

Prerequisits

Make sure your system has enough memory (2 Gigs or more)

We need to alter the system a bit:

Oracle

Start SQL*plus as system

alter system set PROCESSES=500 scope=SPFILE;
alter system set open_cursors=500 scope=SPFILE;
alter system register;

Kernel Parameters

Open up /etc/security/limits.conf in gedit.

Add these lines just before “# End of file”

# tbv oracle soa suite 11g
*    hard    nofile  4096
*    soft    nofile  4096

Install packages

And we need to install some extra packages:

su
yum install compat-libstdc++-33
yum install elfutils-libelf
yum install elfutils-libelf-devel
yum install gcc-c++
yum install glibc-devel
yum install libaio-devel
yum install libstdc++-devel
yum install sysstat

Instaling the WebTier

Unzip the ofm_webtier zip into a separate folder:
Make sure you’re not root. The installer will stop.

su
unzip ofm_webtier_linux_11.1.1.2.0_64_disk1_1of1.zip -d webtier
cd webtier/Disk1
./runInstaller

The installer will start:

Click “OK”, a confirmation dialog appears:

Execute the proposed script in a separate terminal:

su
/home/apex/oraInventory/createCentralInventory.sh

Now the installer will start:

Click “Next”

Choose “Install and Configure” and click “Next”

All should be Okay since we did the prerequisites earlier. Click “Next”

I used “/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.1/ofm” (created it first in a separate rooted terminal).

su
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.1/ofm
chmod 777 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.1/ofm

Click “Next”.

We’re only installing the HTTP server. Uncheck all  other checkboxes (including the “Associate Components”) and click “Next”.

Keep the defaults: “Next”

Keep the defaults: “Next”

Fill in your credentials or keep everything empty (and uncheck the checkbox)

Click “Install”

After the installer completes:

Click “Next”

Note the URL’s mentioned

• Oracle HTTP server URL: http://localhost:7777
• Oracle HTTP server SSL URL: http://localhost:4443

Click “Finish”

Now we need to configure the HTTP-Server. This I’ll cover in the next post.