Guest localhost issue

[AaronH]

Open SUSE 13.1 64 bit
VirtualBox 4.3.8

Hi,

On my Open SUSE VM I am trying to use Oracle XE... I have installed the RPM, left the configuration as default and can start and stop Oracle via Terminal without error using:

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/etc/init.d/oracle-xe start

So as far as I am aware it is running. However, when I click Applications > Oracle 11g Express Edition > Get Started it opens the browser at:

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localhost:8080/apex/f?p=450 with error "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8080."

I am not using a connection between guest and host, so the guest is self contained.

ifconfig shows

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lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2260 (2.2 Kb)  TX bytes:2260 (2.2 Kb)

Any thoughts as to why the guest can't see anything on its localhost? I can ping 127.0.0.1 and localhost at Terminal. Perhaps I have ballsed up the Oracle XE install?

[Perryg]

Given your description I would say the Oracle application is not configured properly.