2.1 About Accessing Your Development Environment

How you sign in and access Oracle Application Express depends upon your user role and where Oracle Application Express resides.

Oracle Application Express may reside in a local on-premises Oracle Database or in a hosted environment, such as a Oracle Cloud service. The sign in process differs depending upon the installation type.

Oracle Application Express On-premises

If you are running Oracle Application Express on-premises, sign in to your Oracle Application Express workspace.

See Also:

"Signing In to Your Workspace" in Oracle Application Express Installation Guide.

About Accessing Oracle Application Express in Oracle Cloud

Oracle Application Express is installed and enabled in Oracle APEX Application Development (APEX Service) and Oracle Autonomous Database Shared Exadata Infrastructure such as Autonomous Transaction Processing and Autonomous Data Warehouse.

Oracle Application Express is available in Exadata Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. However, you need to manually customize your databases to install and enable Oracle Application Express by following on-premises installation process or using cloud tooling such as Terraform.

See Also:

• Get an Environment

• "Welcome to Oracle APEX Application Development Service" in Getting Started with Oracle APEX Application Development

• "Creating Applications with Oracle Application Express on Autonomous Database" in Using Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure

• "Oracle Application Express (APEX) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database" white paper on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Technical White Papers page