Error connecting to Oracle Apex DB Home Page

Hi Experts

I’ve been trying to install Oracle XE 11g and I keep receiving the infamous error

could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8080

I’ve tried a few things and been over what seems most of the internet but I can’t quite get to the bottom of it, so what am I missing?
This seemed to be a similar situation: Oracle Link


After getting the abovementioned error I ran services.msc and started

OracleServiceXE
OracleXEClrAgent
OracleXETNSListener

Then In the command line checked the lsnrctl status

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>lsnrctl status

LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 17-MAR-2012 17:00
:53

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 - Produ
ction
Start Date                17-MAR-2012 13:28:22
Uptime                    0 days 3 hr. 32 min. 34 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP                      OFF
Default Service           XE
Listener Parameter File   C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\network\a
dmin\listener.ora
Listener Log File         C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\diag\tnslsnr\kasutaja-e3f985\li
stener\alert\log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1ipc)))
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=kasutaja-e3f985)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "CLRExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "CLRExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 3 handler(s) for this service...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully

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As you can see the reference to port 8080 is missing, so I did ns lookup
(hostname doesn’ t match ...could that be a problem)
 

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nslookup kasutaja-e3f985
Server:  dsldevice.lan
Address:  192.168.1.254

Name:    kasutaja-e3f985.lan
Address:  192.168.1.71

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nslookup 127.0.0.1
Server:  dsldevice.lan
Address:  192.168.1.254

Name:    dsldevice.lan
Address:  127.0.0.1

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I also logged into SQLplus as admin and tried connecting and got the following response

Enter password:
Connected to an idle instance.

SQL>
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttport from dual;
select dbms_xdb.gethttport from dual
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
Process ID: 0
Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

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And below is also the host ping

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping localhost

Pinging kasutaja-e3f985 [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

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And when trying to start it this is what happened.

Enter password:
Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-01565: error in identifying file 'C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\serv
er\dbs/spfileXE.ora'
ORA-27046: file size is not a multiple of logical block size
OSD-04012: file size mismatch (OS 2917)

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