24.6 About Publishing the Database Application URL
Once you deploy your application, load the data, and create users, you can publish your production URL.
You can determine the production URL for your application by either:
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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.
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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 Application Express Login API. Consider the following example:
http://apex.somewhere.com/pls/apex/f?p=11563:1:3397731373043366363
Where:
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apex.somewhere.com
is the URL of the server. -
pls
is the indicator to use themod_plsql
cartridge. -
apex
is the database access descriptor (DAD) name. The DAD describes how Oracle HTTP Server connects to the database server so that it can fulfill an HTTP request. The default value isapex
. -
f?p=
is a prefix used by Oracle Application Express. -
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 after
:home
in 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:
Parent topic: Deploying an Application