Internet access for your Oracle Applications

Oracle only supports those Applications with a minimum of 11.5.9 version to be made Internet Accessible. Relevant patches and updates must also be met, inorder for the support to take place.
But, that itself wont make the Applications safe enough to make it Externally Deployable.

Oracle E-Business Suite within DMZ must be carried out after a careful planning, and it is advisable to have an external application server for the external purposes.

DMZ can be done in a better way if a reverse proxy server is configured to talk to the external application server.

Steps to configure Oracle Applications to make it externally Deployable within DMZ.
Step 1 - Only Internal application Server and Database.
1) Run pre - clone steps for the internal application server.

step 2 - Copy the internal application server to the external box.
1) run post clone on the external application server.
2) run addnode to add this node within the E-business Suite.

step 3- Prepare for DMZ (with Standalone Apache Server that acts as the Reverse proxy server)
1) Setup the Apache Server to act as the standalone Reverse Proxy server (Note 287176.1)

step 4 -
1) Run sqlplus / @/patch/115/sql/txkChangeProfH.sql SERVRESP

2) Update Node Trust Level

3) Upgrade list of responsibilities

4) Update Home Page Mode to Framework

5) Update Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Context File

6) Run AutoConfig and Restart Oracle HTTP Server

7) After a few changes in the Reverse proxy server, the oracle applications will be available for external access.


P.s.- I shall explain more in detail in the future posts...