title: Oracle XE 11g homepage not displaying
body: <p>I have been searching for a solution to my problem for a while now but none seems to be working, this is my last attempt before I go for re-installation.</p>
  
  <p>I today installed Oracle XE 11g Release 2 through its installation wizard and it went fine. The trouble I seem to be having is that I can't open the browser homepage.</p>
  
  <p>The browsers are giving me the error: <code>cannot establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8080</code></p>
  
  <p>I am on Windows 7 32-bit and i have downloaded &amp; installed the XE for the same.</p>
  
  <p>From reading all the possible answers I gathered that some info might be needed before my question is answered. So are the results from various commands that I have run which all the answers asked for.</p>
  
  <p>1)</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\lenove&gt; netstat -nao | find "8080"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No result for this one</p>
  
  <p>2)</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\lenovo&gt; lsnrctl status
  
  LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 18-JAN-2013 16:46:43
  
  Copyright (c) 1991, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
  
  Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC1)))
  STATUS of the LISTENER
  ------------------------
  Alias                     LISTENER
  Version                   TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
  Start Date                18-JAN-2013 16:18:54
  Uptime                    0 days 0 hr. 27 min. 52 sec
  Trace Level               off
  Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
  SNMP                      OFF
  Default Service           XE
  Listener Parameter File   C:\oracle\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\network\admin\listener.ora
  Listener Log File         C:\oracle\oraclexe\app\oracle\diag\tnslsnr\Voldemort\listener\alert\log.xml
  Listening Endpoints Summary...
    (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1ipc)))
    (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=Voldemort)(PORT=1521)))
  Services Summary...
  Service "CLRExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
    Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
  Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
    Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
  Service "xe" has 1 instance(s).
    Instance "xe", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
  The command completed successfully
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>3)</p>
  
  <pre><code>SQL&gt; SELECT dbms_xdb.gethttpport FROM dual;
  SP2-0640 : Not Connected
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>4)
  Contents of oraclexe/app/oracle/product/11.20/server/network/ADMIN/listener.ora (oraclexe is the default installation directory suggested by the Installation Wizard)</p>
  
  <pre><code>SID_LIST_LISTENER =
    (SID_LIST =
      (SID_DESC =
        (SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
        (ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server)
        (PROGRAM = extproc)
      )
      (SID_DESC =
        (SID_NAME = CLRExtProc)
        (ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server)
        (PROGRAM = extproc)
      )
    )
  
  LISTENER =
    (DESCRIPTION_LIST =
      (DESCRIPTION =
        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1))
        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = Voldemort)(PORT = 1521))
      )
    )
  
  DEFAULT_SERVICE_LISTENER = (XE)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried using both chrome and firefox (latest versions of both) but still couldn't get it.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Note:</strong> This is my first attempt at oracle so I was a bit wary of trying every solution suggested by the threads, hence my own thread.</p>
  
  <p>Thanx in advance!</p>