Lock out the Oracle eBusiness Suite (11.5.X) from the general user population. This allows Sysadmins, DBAs and Functional Analysts to perform tasks that require full access to the eBusiness Suite but requires �Normal Users� to be off of the application. It is probably not hack proof but will provide a basic lock out capability.

Apache Basic Authentication is used to limit the users into the application.
  1. Copy apps.conf file to apps.conf.open and apps.conf.closed.
  2. Create a password file with htpasswd.
  3. Apply �Lockout� modifications to apps.conf.closed

Lock Out Procedure
  1. Stop the Web Tier services with adstpall.sh apps/appspassword
  2. Copy apps.conf.closed to apps.conf
  3. Start the Web Tier services with adstrtal.sh apps/appspassword

You will be prompted for the userid and password you created with htpasswd when you first access the PHP and again when you first access Oracle Forms.


UnLock Procedure
  1. Stop the Web Tier services with adstpall.sh apps/appspassword
  2. Copy apps.conf.open to apps.conf
  3. Start the Web Tier services with adstrtal.sh apps/appspassword