Rapidwiz error while installing Applications Release12

When attempting to install Oracle Applications Release 12, the following error occurs during rapidwiz post-installation checks


ERROR LOGIN PAGE
-------------------------
checking URL = http://.:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLogin
RW-50016: Error: - {0} was not created:

Processing DriverFile = /stage/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/template/adriapps.drv
Executing service control script:
/oracle/R12/inst/apps/TWO_oraclesvr05/admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh start
ERROR : Timed out( 100000 ): Interrupted Exception
You are running adoacorectl.sh version 120.11


The issue is caused by a wrong setup in /etc/hosts file. The local host and server are setup in the same line in the hosts file.

To resolve this, backup the hosts file and make the following change.

127.0.0.1 localhost
'IP' 'host.domain' 'host'

Log file locations in oracle applications 11i

Below list of log file locations which will be helpful for trouble shooting errors in oracle applications 11i

- OCA (Oracle Certificate Authority)
$ORACLE_HOME/oca/logs/admin.log

- OHS (Oracle HTTP Server)
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/ssl_engine_log
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/ssl_request_log
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/access_log
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/error_log

- OID (Oracle Internet Directory)
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/oidmon.log
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/oidldapd01.log
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/oidldapd02.log
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/odi/log/*.trc
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/odi/log/*.aud

- OPMN
$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/logs/ipm.log

- SSO
$ORACLE_HOME/sso/log/ssoServer.log

- Web Cache
$ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs/event_log
$ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs/access_log

- E-Business Suite
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/ssl_engine_log
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/ssl_request_log
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/access_log
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/error_log
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/JServ/logs

- Portal
$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_Portal/application-deployments/portal/OC4J_Portal_default_island_1/application.log

Enabling Additional SSL Debugging

- OCA
$ORACLE_HOME/oca/bin/ocactl set -type LOG -state
$ORACLE_HOME/oca/bin/ocactl set -type TRACE -state
$ORACLE_HOME/oca/bin/ocactl clear -type <>

- OHS
$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf - set LogLevel $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/ssl.conf$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/ocm_apache.conf (Infrastructure Tier Only)

- E-Business Suite
$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf