About Publishing an Application URL

Once you deploy your application, load the data, and create users, you can publish your production URL.

Finding Your Production URL

You can determine the production URL for your application by either:

• Selecting the application on the Application home page and right-clicking the Run button. Then, select Copy link address or Copy link location depending on your browser.

• Running the application and then copying the URL.

The Run button gets its value from the Home link attribute on the Edit Security Attributes page. This link is only referenced by this icon and by applications that do not use the Oracle APEX Login API.

Friendly URL Syntax Example Consider the following example:

http://apex.somewhere.com/ords/example/r/hr-app/update-employees?session=13766599855150

Where:

• apex.somewhere.com is the URL of the server.

• ords is the service name defined when configuring Oracle REST Data Services.

• example is the Path Prefix which is URI path prefix used to build friendly URLs. When you create a workspace, this value defaults to workspace name.

• r is the router shortcut.

• hr-app is the Application Alias. In a new application, the Application Alias defaults to the application Name.

• update-employees is the Page Alias. In a new application, the Page Alias defaults to the page Name.

• ?session=13766599855150 is the session ID. When you run an application, the APEX engine generates a session number that serves as a key to the user’s session state.

To run this example, a user would use the URL:

http://apex.somewhere.com/ords/example/r/hr-app/update-employees

f?p URL Syntax Example

Consider the following example:

http://apex.somewhere.com/ords/f?p=11563:1:3397731373043366363

Where:

• apex.somewhere.com is the URL of the server.

• ords is the service name defined when configuring Oracle REST Data Services.

• f?p= is a prefix used by Oracle APEX.

• 11563 is the application being called.

• 1 is the page within the application to be displayed.

• 3397731373043366363 is the session number.

To run this example, a user would use the URL:

http://apex.somewhere.com/pls/apex/f?p=11563:1

Tip: When users sign in, they receive unique session numbers. This number displays at the end of the URL. Do not include the session number as part of the URL. When another user tries to run a URL containing a session ID, an error displays.

See Also: Understanding URL Syntax