Configuring WebLogic Server as a Web Server

You are well aware by now that Oracle WebLogic Server is a powerful Java EE–compliant application server capable of supporting multiple web applications by serving dynamic content through servlets, JSPs, and custom tag libraries. You can also use WebLogic Server as a full fledged HTTP server, serving static content such as HTTP pages, applets, and multimedia files, just like a normal web server. WebLogic Server provides all the standard web server features such as virtual hosts, which enable a single server or cluster to host multiple web sites, with each logical web server having a distinct hostname. You use the Domain Name Service (DNS) to map all the virtual hosts to the same IP address and enable ...

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