Portal 3.0.9 first page appears on accessing /oa_servlets/AppsLogin

While logging on to a test instance, I saw this error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pls/$TWO_TASK_portal30/portal30.home on this server.

apache access_log shows

192.168.11.23 - - [13/Feb/2009:10:41:14 -0500] "GET /pls/$TWO_TASK_portal30/portal30.home HTTP/1.1" 403 245 0

access_log_pls shows

error_log_pls shows

[Fri Feb 13 10:40:56 2009] [error] mod_plsql: /pls/$TWO_TASK_portal30/portal30.home HTTP-403 ORA-1017 Proxy log On failed.
Please verify that you have specified correct connectivity information i.e. username, password & connect-string in the DAD

[Fri Feb 13 10:41:14 2009] [error] mod_plsql: /pls/$TWO_TASK_portal30/portal30.home HTTP-403 ORA-1017 Proxy log On failed.
Please verify that you have specified correct connectivity information i.e. username, password & connect-string in the DAD

I checked the wdbsvr.app file and found this in the portal30 DAD:

[DAD_apps11i_portal30]

connect_string  =  apps11i

password        =  secretseven

username        =  portal30

default_page    =  portal30.home

document_table  =  portal30.wwdoc_document

document_path   =  docs

document_proc   =  portal30.wwdoc_process.process_download

upload_as_long_raw =

upload_as_blob  = *

reuse           =  Yes

connmax         = 10

enablesso       = Yes

pathalias       = url

pathaliasproc   = portal30.wwpth_api_alias.process_download

cgi_env_list=SERVER_NAME=apps11i.justanexample.com,

REQUEST_PROTOCOL=http,SERVER_PORT=8002,HOST=apps11i.justanexample.com:8000

I checked in the db

SQL> conn portal30/secretseven

ERROR:

ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Since this was a test instance, I decided to see what happens if we change the password of portal30 user to secretseven.

So I changed the password of portal30 to secretseven

conn / as sysdba

alter user portal30 identified by secretseven

Accessing the /oa_servlets/AppsLogin page took me to:

http://apps11i.justanexample.com:8000/servlet/page?_pageid=51&_dad=apps11i_portal30&_schema=PORTAL30

which showed the Oracle Portal 3.0.9 first page:

I tried accessing it through: 

http://apps11i.justanexample.com:8000/OA_HTML/AppsLocalLogin.jsp

That showed me the expected username and password page:

Will update as I learn more.