Login error in Oracle Apps r12

I have got a strange kind of error when I tried to login to a freshly cloned r12 instance. The version of Oracle was 12.1.3

Entered the user name and password

Pressed Login button and got the following error

The error is strange, “You are not authorized to access the function Transfer Process Process Migrate. Please contact your System Administrator”

If I close the browser and again try to go to the Oracle login page I would come back to the same error until the session has timed out. This is based on the session time out profile value set in Oracle.

I found out the way to work around the error is note the actual page URL that the browser should be taking me to. The URL will be,

http://<apps link>:<port>/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=OAHOMEPAGE

Now, on the error page paste the URL in the address bar and you will be taken to the Oracle home page.

Cause for this error

The apps URL was originally saved in the web browser favourites as,

http://uxitcl1b.com:8010/OA_HTML/RF.jsp?function_id=1024773&resp_id=-1&resp_appl_id=-1&security_group_id=0&lang_code=US&params=BbXnXbfUXCvU05mSO.nQVVsNLylo-g4Lz-AHKzt5t9PPjPQfHIIAbmmpSde0VQ3V.uCO9jcGtmeup7UEUfs4DAVDUGegHdO43ruUg.SQkBjW1b8WPp6osRGBCJ9O4YyaYgI1G6PHhAb3WoKOfjWvOrRoA0GW0d6bhmpuoFZ0hKdQgYkhy9tJI.s.7jLizb3PF-res4tLun01HNiZBeh0GQOMLUZV7ZwZuA88-7rU6enifZcae4Ncrq.9La2KFsaFZ-iWN4s4NdsHa7L-fDkdWnA1OvbdfuhFC6rAZ5DczRjsfIpL-R3jdj2QGWHCiY91UUL9sYGOUVhpx1tcBFyWt1zlYx7irGzzimxEHKb91A6NViWzR9bB-vgxnmYYGhUu-jPEaOSRQzcIS33rkKWFqia9UQhEDhPx4-.QSq813yJpr8iFXeE8iiFuPoUqA-ih&oas=FzpsgOBCs8xgjrVDLBecHw..

The URL is saved like this because when we type the basic URL for Oracle, i.e. http://oracleappslink:<port>/ it automatically redirects the browser to the home page which is the link above and we save the same URL in the web browser favourites.

Once the instance was cloned from a different instance accessing it through the same link created this issue.

Solution

1. Type in the URL http://<apps link>:<port>/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=OAHOMEPAGE
   after getting the error
   
2. After Oracle is cloned, access Oracle using the default URL of http://oracleappslink:<port>/ and save the redirected URL in the web browser favourites once again.

Cheers!

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