20.1.4 Configuring Instance Settings

Security best practices when configuring an Oracle Application Express instance include determining whether to automate the creation workspaces., enabling and configuring email, configuring storage options, and creating wallets.

• About Enabling Automation When Creating Workspaces
  
• About Enabling and Configuring Email
  
• About Configuring Storage Options
  
• About Creating Wallets
  

See Also:

"Configuring Instance Settings" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

20.1.4.1 About Enabling Automation When Creating Workspaces

Administrators determine the amount of automation when provisioning (or creating) new workspaces.

To determine how provisioning works, an Instance Administrator selects one of the following options on the Instance Settings page:

• Manual - An Instance administrator creates new workspaces and notifies the Workspace administrator regarding the Sign In credentials.

• Request - Users request a workspace. Once an administrator approves the request, the user receives an email containing an email verification link. After the user clicks the email verification link, the workspace is created.

• Automatic - Works similar to Request except requests are automatically approved with no administrator review required.

Note:

To enable users to request a workspace using a link on the Sign In page, the Instance administrator must choose either the Request or Automatic Provisioning Method and configure email. If the Provisioning Method is set to Manual, no link appears on the Sign In page.

See Also:

About the Workspace Request Approval Process and Selecting a Provisioning Mode in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

20.1.4.2 About Enabling and Configuring Email

In order to send email from an Oracle Application Express application, an Instance administrator must define the email SMTP settings and set the Use SSL/TLS attribute to use a secure connection for Oracle Database 11g R2 or later.

See Also:

• "Configuring Email" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

• "When and Why Network Services Must be Enabled"

20.1.4.3 About Configuring Storage Options

Administrators can configure the following storage options: require a new schema when requesting a workspace, auto extend tablespaces, or delete uploaded files are a specified number of days.

See Also:

"Configuring Storage" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

20.1.4.4 About Creating Wallets

A wallet is a password-protected container that stores authentication and signing credentials (including private keys, certificates, and trusted certificates) needed by SSL. You must create a wallet if you:

• Call a SSL-enabled URL (for example, by invoking a Web service).

• Create a region of type URL that is SSL-enabled.

• Configure secure SMTP by setting the Use SSL/TLS attribute to Yes.

• Have applications with LDAP authentication schemes that are configured to use SSL with Authentication.

See Also:

"Configuring Wallet Information" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide