Oracle 10g express and 11g express DB homepage is not showing up

Question

I just installed Oracle for the first time and the last step of the installer is to ask if I want to check the home page. I checked it, the browser opened a local website, but this website does not exists. So I am simply stuck here.

I tried 10g first, I uninstalled it and tried 11g. I always get a non-running webpage. I tried it because I saw in some answers that 10g was not supported by Windows 7 32 bits and that 11g was.

Each time, I checked if all the Oracle services were up and they are. I also checked if the port 8080 was used and it is not. Also, disabling the Windows firewall gives nothing.

I know nothing about Oracle so please give me some links if you are talking about Oracle specific things.

If you don't know the problem with the website, could you tell me which service is supposed to start the website and were is its logfile so that I could see the error?

Thanks

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In a side note, in the project install guide, I am supposed to run "sqlplus system@xe" after Oracle is installed. When I do it, I have to enter the password and then I get "ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor". Each questions about that error was about "it worked fine for a week and now no more" which is clearly not my situation, so this is not my question, just a side note.

Solution

One of my teammate found the answer. The problem was in the installation and here is what worked:

Warning for Windows7 only:
Oracle 10g installation on windows 7 32-bit completes without error but it is incomplete. In order to fix the problem, before installing Oracle, shut down your PC, unplug your network cable, boot your PC and install Oracle (not a joke), and reconnect only after the installation of Oracle 10g.

That is weird, but it worked

NOTE----This method doesn't worked with 11g express R2 . (ofcourse i am talking of windows 7)

Comments

[Surender Thakran]

Service process ORACLE.EXE for OracleServiceXE is running on port no. 50944 after i manually started it from services.msc. What should I do now?