Host static content from Weblogic

Question

I have a need to host static content from my weblogic server in order to mimic the functionality of our old OHS server. In our case we used Apache rewrite rules in our old server that would catch someone trying to access the server directly by URL or trying to come in through HTTP instead of HTTPS and then pull the switch-a-roo on them and direct them directly to our APEX instance over a HTTPS connection. Is there a way to accomplish this same thing with weblogic without an Apache server acting as your front end?
I found this article here http://blogs.oracle.com/middleware/2010/06/publish_static_content_to_weblogic.html about hosting static content but in my case I need the content actually at the root level (example http://domain.com/index.html) where I can throw in javascript redirect headers.
The way I set this up was I have two servers on one box. The first server services standard HTTP requests on port 80. It will do nothing but redirect to the corresponding location on the same machine but over HTTPs on port 443.
The server running on port 443 actually runs the APEX listener. I would like to deploy something similar to the first one that shows its content at https://server.domain.com to redirect to the Apex listener. I thought I might could repackage the apex listener to accomplish this but I would rather do it as a separate deployment rather than risk damaging our modified production copy of the APEX Listener.
Anyone have any thoughts?

Answer 1

What about using a virtual host? Create a virtual host and only target your application to that host.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/apirefs.1111/e13952/taskhelp/virtual_hosts/VirtualHosts.html
Then within that virtual host, do something like this to force HTTPS:
http://weblogicserver.blogspot.com/2009/11/force-confidentiality-for-web.html
Then have an application that catches everything else deployed to the same server for other IP/hostnames and redirects to that virtual host. I haven't tried it, but I think that might do what you're asking about.