Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance – Installation and Configuration

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance – also known as Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance OSCSA – acts as a gateway between classic storage and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Service. The appliance can be installed on an on-premises Linux system or in an Oracle Compute Cloud machine and runs in a Docker container. It offers a local cache where clients can place their files before the OSCSA moves them into the Storage Service. The communication between a client with a filesystem to the OSCSA works with NFSv4, from the OSCSA to the Object Storage Service, Oracle is using their REST interface. Traffic from the OSCSA to and from the Oracle cloud can be encrypted and compressed. In this blog post…

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Install and Configure Oracle Application Express with Oracle REST Data Services and Apache Tomcat

In this article I will show you how you can install and configure Oracle Application Express (APEX) and the Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS), which is running on an Apache Tomcat application server. In previous installations I used the Oracle HTTP server and the extenstion mod_plsq. But this does not work anymore with the newest Oracle HTTP server version. In the Oracle Application Express Installation Guide is written: mod_plsql is deprecated as of Oracle HTTP Server 12c (12.1.3). For more information, please see My Oracle Support Note 1576588.1. Oracle recommends using Oracle REST Data Services instead. Oracle REST Data Service is the future – so let’s go to the future. Installation Steps Installation and Configuration Oracle Application Express 5.1.1 Installation and…

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