Can web server plugin point to multiple cluster ?

Question

Hi,
          Can you point a web server plugin to multiple Weblogic 8.1 clusters ? If yes, how does the dynamic list work ?
          E.g. Web server X -> Cluster Y & Cluster Z
          In the plugin documentation it is not explicit that you can or can't do so (http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs81/plugins/plugin_params.html#1149781).
          "WebLogicCluster : List of WebLogic Servers that can be used for load balancing. The server or cluster list is a list of host:port entries. If a mixed set of clusters and unclustered servers is specified, the dynamic list returned for this parameter will return only the clustered servers."
          Thanks,
          Antonio Goncalves

Answer 1

you need to introduce a 'NameTrans' directive to redirect the url that you want to send to the back end
for example, edit your obj.conf to look like
<Object name="default">
NameTrans fn="assign-name" name="passthrough" from="<give a top level url that you want to send to the back end"
and restart the server.
disabling java will reduce the web server process size significantly. unfortunately, this is a very manual process in 6.1. however, if you could consider migrating to web server 7 u2, where reverse proxy plugin is integrated within the produce (rather than as a separate plugin), u could easily disable-java and configure reverse proxy through either gui or cli command
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2204/disable-java-1?a=view
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2204/create-reverse-proxy-1?a=view
pl. remember to run a deploy-config as soon as you run each of this above command. again, this would be relevant only if want to upgrade to web server 7