Ozan Safi

I have just installed a brand new Oracle 10g XE and just after installation, I was not able to access the home page.

When I executed the "lsnrctl status" command I got this output:

C:\Documents and Settings\me>lsnrctl status

LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 – Production on 19-ÌUB-2009 00:01:03

Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC_FOR_XE)))

STATUS of the LISTENER

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Alias                     LISTENER

Version                   TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 – Produ

ction

Start Date                18-ÌUB-2009 23:53:29

Uptime                    0 days 0 hr. 7 min. 36 sec

Trace Level               off

Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication

SNMP                      OFF

Default Service           XE

Listener Parameter File   D:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\network\admin\listener.ora

Listener Log File         D:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\network\log\listener.log

Listening Endpoints Summary…

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC_FOR_XEipc)))

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=a.b.c.d)(PORT=1521)))

Services Summary…

Service "CLRExtProc" has 1 instance(s).

Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service…

Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).

Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service…

The command completed successfully

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Burning with frustration, I tried the following options.

a)  Reinstalling Oracle 10g XE (2 times actually, once with the admin account) – didn’t work

b)  I tried to change the port to 8081 by using dbms_xdb.sethttpport(8081) – didn’t work either

One thing that I haven’t done however is to lookup installation instructions

So I did that; the problematic part for me was : 2.4.1 Configuring for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

I tried it on IE and Chrome; I forgot for a second there that Chrome also uses IE’s settings, so I thought that "I have tried it on 2 different browsers, it is not a browser issue obviously". I was wrong

Anyway it is a stupid mistake, but maybe someone else will also make it So here is a blog post…