Showing posts with label oracle rest data services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oracle rest data services. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2014

Install Oracle REST Data Services for Oracle Apex in Apache Tomcat 7

1) Download Oracle REST data services from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/downloads/index.html

2) Unzip the content of the ZIP directory
3) Rename the ords.war to apex.war if you want the URL in the format of http://hostname/apex
mv ords.war apex.war

4) Before you configure the WAR file you will need to specify where the config files should be kept. Create a directory where you want the config files to be kept. Suppose its in /home/oracle/apex_config

5) Run the following:
java -jar apex.war configdir "/home/oracle/apex_config"

6) Next run the setup, it will write the config files to directory specified in parameter in step 5 above:
java -jar apex.war setup

7) Copy this apex.war file to <<tomcat home>> /webapps directory

8) Copy the Apex Images to <<tomcat home>>/webapps/images directory and rename this directory to i so the path to images directory is 
<<tomcat home>>/webapps/i

9) Startup Tomcat