Create the compute instance<\/strong><\/p>\n At some point you will have an instance “Green” ready to access:<\/p>\n Click on it and get the public address:<\/p>\n Using your SSH keypair, you can now access the instance with:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Setup sshd for SSH tunneling and X11 forwarding<\/strong><\/p>\n Edit as root the sshd_config:<\/p>\n Modify it so that the following lines are present with these values:<\/p>\n Those values are required for X11 forwarding (required for the graphical installation) and for SSH tunneling (required to access\u00a0 the Weblogic ports without exposing them over internet).<\/p>\n Then restart sshd:<\/p>\n Install the packages for X11\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, it should be possible to forward X11. You can test by reconnecting with:<\/p>\n and then:<\/p>\n Create the oracle user<\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, you can reconnect using oracle directly, so X11 forward will work for the oracle user without any additional setup:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Follow the canonical steps to install weblogic<\/strong><\/p>\n If you do not know how to do that, follow this good tutorial by Tim Hall (oracle-base):<\/p>\n Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) 12cR2 (12.2.1) Installation on Oracle Linux 6 and 7<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Access the Weblogic console from outside Oracle Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n If you configured correctly sshd, once the Oracle Weblogic instance is configured and started, you can tunnel to the port (it should be 7001):<\/p>\n And be able to browse from your laptop using localhost:7001:<\/p>\n HTH<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Ludovico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I put here the steps required to install and access Weblogic in the OCI (mostly for me in case I need to do it again \ud83d\ude09 ). The assumptions are: you already have an account for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure … Continue reading \n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n$ ssh opc@{public_ip}<\/pre>\n$ sudo vi \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/pre>\n
AllowTcpForwarding yes\r\nPermitOpen any\r\nX11Forwarding yes\r\nX11DisplayOffset 10\r\nX11UseLocalhost no<\/pre>\n
$ sudo systemctl restart sshd\r\n<\/pre>\n
# sudo yum install xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64\r\n# sudo yum install libXtst\r\n# # optional, to test if X11 forwarding works\r\n# sudo yum install xterm<\/pre>\n
$ ssh -XC opc@{public_ip}<\/pre>\n$ xterm<\/pre>\n
$ sudo su - root\r\n# groupadd -g 54321 oinstall\r\n# useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall oracle\r\n# passwd oracle<\/pre>\n
$ ssh -XC oracle@{public_ip}<\/pre>\n$ ssh -L 7001:{vm_name}:7001 oracle@{public_ip}<\/pre>\n<\/a><\/p>\n