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Oracle Apex on Autonomous with custom ORDS

In one of my recent blogs I’ve described how you can use Nginx as a reverse proxy to assign your custom domain name to the Oracle Apex on Autonomous database. But you still use the default ORDS managed by Oracle. What if you want to change some ORDS parameters? For example you might decide to change the “low” type of connection to “high” or “medium”. In this post I will describe how to install your custom ORDS to work with Autonomous databases in standalone mode, using only Tomcat and Apache http server with Tomcat as the frontend.

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Oracle Apex on ATP with custom domain

If you have an Apex app on top of your Oracle Autonomous database you have the application URL like https://m5c5hpup7eqqydh-glebatp01.adb.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloudapps.com/ords/r/covid/covid-ontario/covid_ontario. This is already better than it used to be before and have a friendly path in the URL but what if you want to use your own domain address and custom URL? This blog is about how to set it up using reverse proxy. The way with a custom ORDS is a subject for another post.

So, you have your own domain registered in DNS, for example apex.gleb.ca and an application like I’ve listed above. What you want to do is to make the application URL as https://www.apex.gleb.ca/covid/ . What we are going to use is a virtual machine with a Nginx web server serving as a reverse proxy to your Apex application created on the Oracle Autonomous database.

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