Proxying Requests to Other Web Servers

If you choose to set up the WebLogic Server as your main web server, you can configure it to act as a proxy for other web servers such as an Apache web server on the same or a different machine. WebLogic Server can then pass on specified HTTP requests to the other web server based on the URL of the HTTP request.

Unlike the rest of the web server configuration, you must configure proxying within the web application itself, not on WebLogic Server. Use the HttpProxyServlet provided by WebLogic Server and configure it within a web application that you've deployed on the WebLogic Server that you want to proxy HTTP requests. The HttpProxyServlet receives HTTP requests and sends it to the proxy URL you've configured, ...

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