Reconfigure Portal 11g

How to recover from Portal 11g Configuration Failure?

If portal 11g configuration fails in the middle due to network flow problems, such as: the needed port is not open, how do we recover from there?

Answer:  Deinstall Portal Instance. And then reconfigure portal.
The last post described the steps to deinstall Portal Instance.  This post  describes how to reconfigure Poratl 11g.

- Use windows explorer to find out where config.batis located. Most likely it is located under a directory like the following:

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- Open up a command line prompt with "run as administrator", and execute the following:
       1.  cd oracle\poratl\portal_home\oui\bin
       2.  config.bat
            In "Install Type", select "Extend Weblogic Domain"
       3. On the next screen you will need to enter the following information:

      a. Domain Host Name:
      b. Domain Port No: (i.e. 7001)
      c. User name: (i.e. weblogic)
      d. Password: <password for weblogic admin user)

       4.