Changing the document root in WLS 6.0 SP1

Question

Hello,
          I want to change the deployment folder of
          config/<domainName>/applications
          to another folder in our source tree. Is this possible? The reason we
          want to do this is because our root tree contains the java source code
          and web-related content in our configuration management system. It
          would seem very odd to map our web-related stuff to
          /WLS6.0sp1/config/<mydomain>/applications and everything else to the
          standard structure.
          In 5.1, setting the weblogic.httpd.documentRoot property does this.
          However, I understand that WLS 6.0 uses a classloader for the
          /applications directory. Can I use a system to property to notify WLS
          6.0 to look at a different directory instead?
          There seems to be error in docs related to this.
          http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60///////config_xml/properties.html
          Says DocumentRoot entry can be set in config.xml.
          But the entry is not found in DTD (config.dtd)
          http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60///////config_xml/config.html
          Thanks.
          --Bahar
          

Answer 1

Bahar,
          The docs you pointed out is absolutely right. There is no error in the
          document.
          If you want to change the document root make the following
          modifications in your config.xml as per the example here:
          <Application Deployed="true" Name="DefaultWebApp_myserver"
          Path="d:\docmain">
          <WebAppComponent Name="DefaultWebApp_myserver"
          Targets="myserver" URI="www"/>
          </Application>
          Where Your document root is : d:\docmain\www
          Make sure that you have web.xml under
          d:\docmain\www\WEB-INF
          Kumar.
          Bahar Limaye wrote:
          > Hello,
          >
          > I want to change the deployment folder of
          > config/<domainName>/applications
          > to another folder in our source tree. Is this possible? The reason we
          > want to do this is because our root tree contains the java source code
          > and web-related content in our configuration management system. It
          > would seem very odd to map our web-related stuff to
          > /WLS6.0sp1/config/<mydomain>/applications and everything else to the
          > standard structure.
          >
          > In 5.1, setting the weblogic.httpd.documentRoot property does this.
          > However, I understand that WLS 6.0 uses a classloader for the
          > /applications directory. Can I use a system to property to notify WLS
          > 6.0 to look at a different directory instead?
          >
          > There seems to be error in docs related to this.
          > http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60///////config_xml/properties.html
          > Says DocumentRoot entry can be set in config.xml.
          > But the entry is not found in DTD (config.dtd)
          > http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs60///////config_xml/config.html
          >
          > Thanks.
          >
          > --Bahar