Using Web Server Plug-Ins

While WebLogic Server comes with a built-in web server, you can also use a third-party web server, such as the Apache HTTP Server, for example. Web servers can be used to field requests for simple, static HTML content; but dynamic content, such as that delivered by Java web applications developed as JSPs or servlets, are hosted on the WebLogic Server and the web server routes requests for the dynamic content to WebLogic Server. The web server can use a WebLogic proxy plug-in or the WebLogic Server–provided servlet named HTTPClusterServlet to direct servlet and JSP requests to the cluster. You must configure HTTPClusterServlet as the default web application on the proxy server machine if you want to use this instead of ...

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