Unable to create an ORDS container from the latest (25.4.0) container image #3047
Description
NOTE: Creating this issue on behalf of a user.
ORDS 25.4 when APEX fails to deploy
Notes/observations:
From the logs, it appears that changes have been made to the installation script. I use the command to create the container from the container image:
export ORACLE_PWD=syspassword
podman run -d --name apex-ords --privileged --userns=keep-id:uid=54321,gid=54321 -e DBHOST=host.containers.internal -e DBPORT=1521 -e DBSERVICENAME=freepdb1 -e ORACLE_PWD=$ORACLE_PWD -p 8080:8080 -v /home/oracle/ords_config:/etc/ords/config -v /home/oracle/apex:/opt/oracle/apex container-registry.oracle.com/database/ords:latest
In 25.3.1 this command worked (with the exception of the version):
podman run -d --name apex-ords --privileged --userns=keep-id:uid=54321,gid=54321 -e DBHOST=host.containers.internal -e DBPORT=1521 -e DBSERVICENAME=freepdb1 -e ORACLE_PWD=$ORACLE_PWD -p 8080:8080 -v /home/oracle/ords_config:/etc/ords/config -v /home/oracle/apex:/opt/oracle/apex container-registry.oracle.com/database/ords:25.3.1
Install log: 25.4.0
Testing database connection...
INFO : Attempt 1: Connecting to sys/*****@host.containers.internal:1521/freepdb1 as sysdba...
INFO : Database connection successful.
INFO : The Oracle REST Data Services are not installed on your database.
INFO : Installing The Oracle REST Data Services 25.4.0.
tr: range-endpoints of '.-+' are in reverse collating sequence order
INFO : The ORACLE_USER_PWD variable was not supplied.
A temporary password was generated for ORACLE_USER_PWD.
Execute this command to get the generated password:
docker exec <ORDS_container_name> ords config get --secret db.password
ERROR: The Oracle REST Data Services installation has failed.
2025-12-22T03:52:26Z INFO ORDS has not detected the option '--config' and this will be set up to the default directory.
ORDS: Release 25.4 Production on Mon Dec 22 03:52:30 2025
Copyright (c) 2010, 2025, Oracle.
Configuration:
/etc/ords/config
2025-12-22T03:52:30.783Z SEVERE
Cannot get the password for command option --proxy-user true
Index 0 out of bounds for length 0
Install Log: 25.3.1
Testing database connection...
INFO : Attempt 1: Connecting to sys/*****@host.containers.internal:1521/freepdb1 as sysdba...
INFO : Database connection successful.
INFO : The Oracle REST Data Services are not installed on your database.
INFO : Installing The Oracle REST Data Services 25.3.1.
INFO : ORDS_PWD env var is not set, using generated value a048CqAKV2GJ
INFO : The Oracle REST Data Services 25.3.1 has been installed correctly on your database.
INFO : The container found Oracle APEX version 24.2.0 in the mounted volume.
INFO : The Oracle APEX 24.2.0 is already installed in your database.
INFO : Set plsql.gateway.mode proxied after Oracle APEX was installed.
INFO : Setup standalone.static.path /opt/oracle/apex/images.
INFO : Starting the Oracle REST Data Services instance.
2025-12-22T04:01:53Z INFO ORDS has not detected the option '--config' and this will be set up to the default directory.
ORDS: Release 25.3 Production on Mon Dec 22 04:01:57 2025
Copyright (c) 2010, 2025, Oracle.
Configuration:
/etc/ords/config
2025-12-22T04:01:59.940Z INFO HTTP and HTTP/2 cleartext listening on host: 0.0.0.0 port: 8080
2025-12-22T04:02:00.121Z INFO Disabling document root because the specified folder does not exist: /etc/ords/config/global/doc_root
2025-12-22T04:02:00.124Z INFO Default forwarding from / to contextRoot configured.