Installing APEX 4 on Windows Server 2003 64 bit edition with Oracle Database 11g

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Overview

This tutorial article and it’s associated video will help guide you through the process of installing APEX version 4.0 in a Windows Server 2003 64 bit OS environment with Oracle Database 11g R2 installed.

Tutorial Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLK1r8UY42I[/youtube]

High Level steps

1. Create destination directory and extract APEX files. (0:20)
2. Login via SQLPLUS (1:13)
3. Install APEX 4.0. (1:58)
4. Change APEX ADMIN password (2:40)
5. Configure PL/SQL Gateway and unlock Anonymous User. (3:15)
6. Verify XML DB HTTP Port (4:04)
7. Enabling Network Services (4:32)
8. Enable Indexing on online help for 11g R2 (4:32)
9. Check Job Queue Processes and Shared Servers (6:45)
10. Check for Previous Releases and remove if needed. (7:00)
11. Remove Invalid ACL’s if needed (7:27)
12. Verify Install by logging in. (8:00)

Upgrading to APEX 4 on Oracle XE and Windows

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Overview

This tutorial article and it’s associated video will help guide you through the process of upgrading a previously installed version of Oracle APEX to APEX version 4.0. We are going to be running on a machine that has Oracle Express Edition 10g (XE) and APEX 3.2 installed on it, in a Windows XP Professional environment.

Tutorial Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2HEtNmHmU[/youtube]

Oracle XE 10g Windows Install – Video Walkthrough Tutorial

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This tutorial article is meant to provide a visual guide to the process of installing Oracle express edition (XE) onto a Windows XP Professional computer. The video below contains the actual tutorial, while this document provides additional information and clickable links to the required software.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VojTYmTNaj4[/youtube]

BPA 10.1.3.4 Windows Install with XE

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I have just had a heck of a time with installing BPA (Architect) Evaluation on a Windows Server 2003 machine. There were no inherent issues with the product itself, but some gotchas that I thought I might point out. For the following, I assumed you are installing on a single machine for testing/evaluation purposes like I was.

For one, if you were familiar with BPA 10.1.3.3, there is no longer an auto-installable olite database option. You must use Oracle XE Universal (or better) and you should have it installed locally prior to installing BPA. Note: You should use XE Universal specifically so you get the AL32UTF8 character set that is expected by the BPA install.

After I got the character set squared away, I continued to receive a database connection error