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i created .bashrc in /home/maz with the following content ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #################################################################################################### ################################################## ################################### MY BASHRC FILE ################################### MY BASHRC FILE ################################### MY BASHRC FILE #################################################################################################### ################################################## # .bashrc # Creator: inameiname # Version: 3.31 # Last modified: 20 February 2011 # Found through various sources (including several things by me) # Commented out stuff is what I personally don't need, # so use at your own risk # Feel free to copy, share, tweak, eat, or whatever #################################################################################################### ################################################## #----- ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ ORIGINAL CONTENT ------ #################################################################################################### ################################################## # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells. # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc) # for examples # If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z '$PS1' ] && return # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options # ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace # append to the history file, don't overwrite it shopt -s histappend # for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1) HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=2000 # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. shopt -s checkwinsize # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1) [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval '$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)' # set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below) if [ -z '$debian_chroot' ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we 'want' color) case '$TERM' in xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;; esac # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt # force_color_prompt=yes if [ -n '$force_color_prompt' ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48 # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.) color_prompt=yes else color_prompt= fi fi if [ '$color_prompt' = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[033[01;32m]u@h[033[00m]:[033[01;34m]w[033[00m]$ ' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$ ' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir case '$TERM' in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1='[e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h: wa]$PS1' ;; *) ;; esac # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then test -r ~/.dircolors && eval '$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)' || eval '$(dircolors -b)' alias ls='ls --color=auto' # alias # alias vdir='vdir --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' fi # some more ls aliases alias ll='ls -alF' alias la='ls -A' alias l='ls -CF' # Add an 'alert' alias for long running commands. Use like so: # sleep 10; alert alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i '$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)' '$(history|tail -n1|sed -e ''s/^s*[0-9]+s*//;s/[;&|]s*alert$//'')' # Alias definitions. # You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like # ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly. # See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package. if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile # sources /etc/bash.bashrc). if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then . /etc/bash_completion fi ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin export ORACLE_HOME export ORACLE_SID=XE export PATH --------------------------------------------- then followed the steps as given in the link i posted earlier when i put the link http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex in the brower and pressed go i got the following error message: Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8080.