Andreas' Adventures

When using the Oracle Database for the storage of WebLogic Portal settings you need to modify the database.properties and run the create_db.sh script. In the database.properties the example uses the Pointbase, so the values in the Oacle section are filled with placeholders. When replacing the jdbc string be carefull not to remove all @ signs. The original value is: oracle.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@@DB_HOST@:@DB_PORT@:@DB_NAME@ The fisrt @ after the 'thin:@' needs to remain there. Otherwise you will get a sql exception when you run the create_db.sh script.

It seems that I'm all into silent installs these days. Trying to do a WebLogic installation in silent mode. Went to the documentation, as a few things have changed since the early BEA days. So I found the sample file for the silent.xml . Without big thinking I copied the sample like this: &ltbea-installer&gt &ltinput-fields&gt &ltdata-value value="D:\Oracle\Middleware_Home" name="BEAHOME"&gt &ltdata-value value="D:\Oracle\Middleware_Home\wlserver_10.3" name="WLS_INSTALL_DIR"&gt &ltdata-value value="WebLogic Server/Core Application ServerWebLogic Server /Administration ConsoleWebLogic Server/Configuration Wizard and Upgrade FrameworkWebLogic Server/Web 2.0 HTTP Pub-Sub ServerWebLogic Server/WebLogic JDBC DriversWebLogic Server/Third Party JDBC DriversWebLogic Server /WebLogic Server ClientsWebLogic Server/WebLogic Web Server Plugins WebLogic Server/UDDI and Xquery SupportWebLogic Server/Server Example...

Yesterday I did my first ever silent install. Nothing fancy yet. There are two possibilities: a) Silent install is dead slow or b) There is something wrong with the machine or the storage Bottom line is, it took me 1.5 hours to just install the database software. I need to investigate this, as this is not what I had in mind. Continuing now with the listener and the dbca in a silent manner.

... or Google Chrome has a problem with counting ;-)