How to upgrade APEX from 4.2 to 5.0?

Pre-Installation checks

select comp_name, version from dba_registry;

COMP_NAME                                          VERSION

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Oracle Enterprise Manager                          11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Application Express                         4.2.6.00.03

OWB                                                11.2.0.3.0

OLAP Catalog                                       11.2.0.3.0

Spatial                                            11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Multimedia                                  11.2.0.3.0

Oracle XML Database                                11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Text                                        11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Expression Filter                           11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Rules Manager                               11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Workspace Manager                           11.2.0.3.0

COMP_NAME                                          VERSION

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Oracle Database Catalog Views                      11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Database Packages and Types                 11.2.0.3.0

JServer JAVA Virtual Machine                       11.2.0.3.0

Oracle XDK                                         11.2.0.3.0

Oracle Database Java Packages                      11.2.0.3.0

OLAP Analytic Workspace                            11.2.0.3.0

Oracle OLAP API                                    11.2.0.3.0

select account_status from dba_users where username = 'APEX_PUBLIC_USER';

ACCOUNT_STATUS

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OPEN

select account_status from dba_users where username = 'ANONYMOUS';

ACCOUNT_STATUS

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OPEN

select default_tablespace, temporary_tablespace from dba_users where username = 'APEX_040200';

DEFAULT_TABLESPACE             TEMPORARY_TABLESPACE

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APEX                                                     TEMP

The script we need to run to do the installation – apexins.sql – takes three parameters :

• The default tabelspace of the APEX owner schema
• The default tablespace of FLOWS_FILES schema
• A temporary tablespace in the database
• A virtual directory for APEX images.

We already know that the default tablespace for the APEX owner is APEX

We also know that the temporary tablespace is called TEMP

As for the FLOWS_FILES schema…

select default_tablespace from dba_users where username = 'FLOWS_FILES';

DEFAULT_TABLESPACE

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SYSAUX

cd /media/mnt01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/apex5.0/apex

@apexins.sql APEX SYSAUX TEMP /i/

@apxchpwd.sql

@apxldimg.sql /media/mnt01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/apex5.0

For embedded PL/SQL Gateway

@apex_epg_config.sql /media/mnt01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/apex5.0

select dbms_xdb.gethttpport from dual;

http://hostname:port/apex/apex_admin