Install Oracle Apex 3.2 on XE and XP Pro – Video Walkthrough Tutorial
This tutorial is a supplment to the install video linked to below. It takes you through the process of installing and verifying APEX version 3.2 installed to an Oracle XE database on a Windows XP Professional computer.
High Level Steps
1. Ensure you are logged into Windows XP with Administrator rights
2. Create home directory for APEX and extract software to that directory (0:50)
3. Using SQLPLUS, install the APEX software against the XE database you already installed (2:31)
@apexins SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
4. Change the APEX ADMIN account password (4:35)
@apxchpwd
5. Run the image loader script (5:25)
@apxldimg.SQL C:\temp
6. Verify the install was applied properly. (6:36)
The times in parenthesis are the approximate start times for that step in the video.
Note: The password being used is “Consult1ng” (without the quotes)
Notes and Resources
The APEX software can be downloaded from this location: APEX Download
The compressed file is universal, and can be used against any supported Oracle database product that is version 9 or newer.
The APEX homepage also contains links to documentation and samples you can use. Some of these will be the subject of future tutorial articles and videos.
Details
In the video we touch on the arguments for the APEX install command. We installed a full developers enviornment. You can also install APEX in a run time mode. The primary differance is that in run time mode, the users cannot edit the applications, only run them.
The developer mode install command is: @apexins
The run time mode install command is: @apxrtins
The arguments you provide are formally:
<install command> <tablespace_apex> <tablespace_files> <tablespace_temp> <images dir>
What this distills down to is you must provide the name of the tablespace that is to be used for the APEX system, the files system, and the temp space, as well as a directory for the SQL images. The ones listed in the video (SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/) are the reccomended ones by Oracle for a clean install. If you are upgrading, or had different tablespaces, you would substitiute those in where needed.
The full explanation of them is also in the formal documentation.
The APEX login screen does differ a little bit from the base one we saw in the Oracle XE tutorial. With the release of APEX 3, you now must supply a workspace name at login. In this tutorial, we used the SYSTEM workspace to login to, as it is the default space for the SYSTEM user.
Related Information:
- Oracle XE 10g Windows Install – Video Walkthrough Tutorial
This tutorial article is meant...
- APEX 3.2 Tutorial Preparation and OEHR Sample Data – Video Walkthrough
This tutorial video and article...
- Oracle APEX Advanced Tutorial 1 – Creating a Tabular Form – Video Walkthrough
This tutorial is designed to...
- Oracle APEX Tutorial 8 – Up and Downloading Files – Part 1 – Video Training
Reports and data entry constitue...
- Resetting Oracle APEX Admin Password – Video Walkthrough Tutorial
Oracle recommends that the password...
- Oracle APEX Video Training Tutorials – Complete List
A few kind readers asked,...
- Oracle APEX Tutorial 2 – Parameterized Report Part 1 – Video Training
This Tutorial is a guided...
- Oracle APEX Tutorial 10 – Access Control – Part 1 – Video Training
Security. We hear about it...
Hi,
Its really awesome of you to provide such a video for beggineers and it as much of help.Really its very nice of you.
Same way hope you provide some of the basic things i mean reports and stuff at the early stages
Hi Kranthi,
Thank you for your kind comments. We have focused on videos for APEX advanced tutorials thus far, but we will discuss your request for more basic information to be added as well. We are adding valuable content regularly and glad that you have found this useful.
Thanks!
These tutorials are really nice. I have gotten APEX 3.2 on 10g using the PL/SQL gateway working via the http server in XML DB. Even though this is not an “officially” supported configuration by Oracle (they support apex on 10g with an external web server) it works fine…hopefully this little step-by-step will help others wrestling with the common issues like images not displaying, annoying pop-ups, etc. etc.
http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-install-oracle-application.html
Thanks again!
Craig
Best tutor for the upgrade out there. clear, clean and efficient. Well done!
Hi MS,
That’s really a great effort.
I blindfoldedly installed migrated Oracle apex from 2.0 to 3.2 without any problems.
I really appreciate your effort in creating a nice video.
Thanks for your video.
regards,
Subramanian Kaushik Gurumoorthy
Great tutotial, but at the end I had to log into apex using sys and not system. I recieved the same result though (Application Express 3.2.1.00.11) at the bottom right hand of the screen.
At last! a tutorial which explains everything!
And you make it look so easy as well
Very well doen chaps
These videos are very helpful for people who can not directly access the new technologies.
Thank you for the Excellent Presentation, We are proud of people like.
very nice tutorial can we use oracle 11g database?
because i get some error messages using it.
hi,
i have successfully installed the apex 3.2 ,but wen i try to connect to database using WORKSPACE:SYSTEM,USERNAME:SYSTEM AND PASSWORD:MANAGER…I am not able to log-in..please let me know how to overcome this problem..
i have a probleam plz tell me about the oralc apex
Hey man why I cant install Apex 4? is there anyone can help me.,?
Awesome!!!! Really nice and really helpful for starters…Keep up the good work