Installing On-Prem Mule ESB and Gateway as Windows Service on the Same Machine

This is a quick note on installing both ESB and Gateway as Windows service on the same machine.

To install as windows service for ESB and Gateway alone is straight forward, just go to the bin directory and run "mule install" or "gateway install" respectively.

However, if you want install both of them as windows service on the same machine, you'll get an error says service name already exists. A quick solution is to edit either mule.bat or gateway.bat, search for "mule_ee", change either one or two of them to a new name. In my case, i changed gateway from "mule_ee" to "mule_gw". That's it.

default Oracle database web console URL is https://localhost:1158/em

If you installed Oracle (standard version) locally, the default port and URL for the web console is: https://localhost:1158/em

Remember you need to start the db console servervice

On Windows: default service name is "OracleDBConsoleorcl"
On Linux: emctl start dbconsole , my path is here "/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin/emctl", yours maybe different.

BTW, default Oracle XE web console URL is "http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex"

An Oracle standard DB install issue with OracleMTSRecoveryService

I got too busy with work, lots things happened that I should post it here. Let me start with a small one.

During Oracle 11g DB (standard version) install, I run into an error, "Error in starting the service. The service OracleMTSRecoveryService was not found".

If I check the service panel, i can see this:

I ignored it a few times. Then I decided to take a closer look and found a work around. here is my solution.
When this error box pops up, keep it there. Fire up regedit go to "computer\hkey_local_machine\system\controlset001\service\OracleMTSRecoveryService". Double click on ImagePath, then change the path to where your Oracle is actually installed.

In my case, the ImagePath has a value of
C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\omtsreco.exe "OracleMTSRecoveryService"

I had to change it to:
C:\app\myaccount\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin\omtsreco.exe "OracleMTSRecoveryService"

then click on "retry". that solved my problem.

You may need to look around to see where your DB is actually installed. By defatul, it is installed under "c:\app\yourAcctName".