Serving static content from a directory

Is it possible to configure WebLogic to serve static content (files) from a directory via an HTTP GET?
What I need is similar to the Apache functionality of publishing a directory by mapping a URL (http://weblogic.server.xx/somePrefix) to a directory on the file-system (e.g. /path/to/some/dir) and allow one to:
- list the directory content by visiting the URL
- fetch files by doing an HTTP GET (this would be by clicking on a file in the listing)
Can one do this without adding a separate HTTP server on the same machine as WebLogic?

I believe if you created a WEB-INF directory at that location and added a skeleton web.xml file, you could specify that location when you deployed a new application from the admin console. I believe there should be an option to allow listing the directory contents, perhaps somewhere in the server definition tabs.

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Host static content from Weblogic

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?

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.

How to configure Apache to serve static content? Please Help

Hi Guys,
I have a set of servers that are:
- Apache acting as a Load Balance;
- Admin Server;
- A cluster with 2 managed servers.
I have a web application deployed on my cluster, but I would like that the static content would be delivered by the Apache.
How should I do it?
Thanks in Advance

Hi Daniel,
A Reverse Proxy could do this but keep in mind that the primary goal of the RP is to shield your back channel infrastructure IP/access from either Internet or your private network e.g. secure your back channel infrastructure with a Firewall and expose it only to your Reverse Proxy infrastructure; quite effective for DoS type of attack.
Apache can be configured to do both static content as well as Reverse Proxy.
Regards,
P-H
http://javaeesupportpatterns.blogspot.com/

How to view the file content from the directory? getting Error:ORA-21560

SQL> create directory READ_LOB_DIR as 'D:\Prj\Comm\Data';
CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure READ_FILE_LOB IS
-- Input Directory as specified in create directory
l_dir CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'READ_LOB_DIR';
-- Input File which is read word by word
l_fil CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'testfile.txt';
-- Separator Character between words is a BLANK (ascii = 32)
l_seb CONSTANT RAW(100) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW(CHR(32));
-- Character at the end of the file is NEWLINE (ascii = 10)
l_sen CONSTANT RAW(100) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW(CHR(10));
-- Pointer to the BFILE
l_loc BFILE;
-- Current position in the file (file begins at position 1)
l_pos NUMBER := 1;
-- Amount of characters have been read
l_sum BINARY_INTEGER := 0;
-- Read Buffer
l_buf VARCHAR2(500);
-- End of the current word which will be read
l_end NUMBER;
-- Return value
l_ret BOOLEAN := FALSE;
BEGIN
-- Mapping the physical file with the pointer to the BFILE
l_loc := BFILENAME(l_dir, l_fil);
-- Check if the file exists
l_ret := DBMS_LOB.FILEEXISTS(l_loc) = 1;
IF (l_ret) THEN
dbms_output.put_line('File ' || l_fil || ' in Directory ' || l_dir ||
' exists');
-- Open the file in READ_ONLY mode
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(l_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
LOOP
-- Calculate the end of the current word
l_end := DBMS_LOB.INSTR(l_loc, l_seb, l_pos, 1);
-- Process end-of-file
IF (l_end = 0) THEN
l_end := DBMS_LOB.INSTR(l_loc, l_sen, l_pos, 1);
l_sum := l_end - l_pos - 1;
DBMS_LOB.READ(l_loc, l_sum, l_pos, l_buf);
dbms_output.put_line(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(l_buf));
EXIT;
END IF;
-- Read until end-of-file
l_sum := l_end - l_pos;
DBMS_LOB.READ(l_loc, l_sum, l_pos, l_buf);
dbms_output.put_line(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(l_buf));
l_pos := l_pos + l_sum + 1;
END LOOP;
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(l_loc);
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line('File ' || l_fil || ' in Directory ' || l_dir ||
' does not exist');
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Error:' || SQLERRM);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(l_loc);
END;
The Text file content is...
Copyright 1996,2001 Oracle Corporation.     All Rights Reserved
This file contains installation instructions for installing the
Oracle8 ODBC Driver software.
It is divided into four parts:
o Part I: Summary of systems supported by Oracle8 ODBC client
software
Lists the platforms on which the Oracle8 ODBC Client software can
be installed.
o Part II: Oracle8 ODBC Driver software.
Describes the files, and installation prerequisites for the Oracle8
ODBC driver software.
o Part III: Exploding the kit onto your system
Describes how to explode the kit onto your system hard drive.
o Part IV: Installation Instructions
Describes how to install the Oracle8 ODBC driver.
Part I: Systems supported by the Oracle8 client software
You can install the ODBC client software on any of the following systems:
o Windows 2000
o Windows NT X86
o Windows 95
o Windows 98
The Oracle8 ODBC Driver provides support for ODBC connections
from Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 98 systems
to Oracle databases.
o Part II: Oracle8 ODBC Driver software.
Refer to the following files for information about the Oracle8 ODBC Driver:
LICENSE.TXT - Oracle8 ODBC Driver License Agreement. Read carefully
before installing and/or using this product. Enclosed in
your software distribution kit.
SQORA.HLP - A Window's Help file which is the primary reference
          manual for the Oracle8 ODBC Driver.
ODBCRelnotes.WRI - The release notes for the Oracle8 ODBC Driver
which contains information which may have not been
included in the Help file.
Installation Prerequisites
See the Oracle8 ODBC Driver release notes (ODBCRelnotes.WRI),
for a complete list of software products required and their versions.
Time Required
The installation of the Oracle8 ODBC Driver takes approximately 5
minutes. The actual time may be shorter or longer, depending upon
your hardware configuration.
Disk Space Required
The Oracle8 ODBC driver installation requires approximately 2
megabytes of available storage space. The space required depends upon
what files you already have installed. The installation procedure
checks to see if you have enough available disk space. If you do not,
the installation fails.
Part III: Exploding the Kit onto your system
Expand the self-extracting archive file onto your hard drive.
C:\> ORA8174.EXE
Part IV: Installation Instructions
Oracle8 ODBC Driver 8.1.7.4.0
This section assumes the following:
1. MS Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95 or Windows 98 is running.
2. Oracle Universal Installer shipping with 8.1.7 has already been
installed on your system.
3. Part III has been completed.
Software fixes:
Refer to release notes (ODBCRelnotes.wri) for a complete list of
Software fixes.
Installation Instructions
Once the self-extracting archive file ORA8174.EXE has been
exploded it will create an installable directory structure
onto your hard drive. Run the Oracle Universal Installer from
your local drive.
1. On the screen "File Locations" use the "Browse" button of
the source path to choose the file 'products.jar' from the
folder that ORA8174.EXE was extracted to. Choose 'Next'.
2. You will receive a warning that some of the dependencies of
this product are not found in the staging area. This warning
is OK. The ODBC driver depends on the Net8 Client being already
installed on the system. Answer 'Yes' to continue.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.
Microsoft, MS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Open Database
Connectivity are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
The output was...
File testfile.txt in Directory READ_LOB_DIR exists
Copyright
1996,2001
Oracle
Corporation.
All
Rights
Reserved
This
file
contains
installation
instructions
for
installing
the
Oracle8
ODBC
Driver
software.
It
is
divided
into
four
parts:
o
Part
I:
Summary
of
systems
supported
by
Oracle8
ODBC
client
Error:ORA-21560: argument 2 is null, invalid, or out of range
I want to diplay/view as per file content format from the file under that specified directory.
Have any other method / any help or suggestions would be really appreciated.

I changed the code like...
CREATE OR REPLACE Procedure READ_FILE_LOB_tmp IS
-- Input Directory as specified in create directory
l_dir CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'READ_LOB_DIR';
-- Input File which is read word by word
l_fil CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'testfile.txt';
-- Separator Character between words is a BLANK (ascii = 32)
l_seb CONSTANT RAW(100) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW(CHR(32));
-- Character at the end of the file is NEWLINE (ascii = 10)
l_sen CONSTANT RAW(100) := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_RAW(CHR(10));
-- Pointer to the BFILE
l_loc BFILE;
-- Current position in the file (file begins at position 1)
l_pos NUMBER := 1;
-- Amount of characters have been read
l_sum BINARY_INTEGER := 0;
-- Read Buffer
l_buf VARCHAR2(4000);
-- End of the current word which will be read
l_end NUMBER;
-- Return value
l_ret BOOLEAN := FALSE;
BEGIN
-- Mapping the physical file with the pointer to the BFILE
l_loc := BFILENAME(l_dir, l_fil);
-- Check if the file exists
l_ret := DBMS_LOB.FILEEXISTS(l_loc) = 1;
IF (l_ret) THEN
dbms_output.put_line('File ' || l_fil || ' in Directory ' || l_dir ||
' exists');
-- Open the file in READ_ONLY mode
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(l_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
LOOP
-- Calculate the end of the current word
l_end := DBMS_LOB.INSTR(l_loc, l_sen, l_pos, 1);
-- Process end-of-file
IF (l_end = 0) THEN
EXIT;
END IF;
-- Read until end-of-file
l_sum := l_end - l_pos;
DBMS_LOB.READ(l_loc, l_sum, l_pos, l_buf);
dbms_output.put_line(UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(l_buf));
l_pos := l_pos + l_sum + 1;
END LOOP;
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(l_loc);
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line('File ' || l_fil || ' in Directory ' || l_dir ||
' does not exist');
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Error:' || SQLERRM);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(l_loc);
END;
Now its working fine with one addtional line...
The file content is...
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
But The output was...
File testfile.txt in Directory READ_LOB_DIR exists
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
This is My Content
here, i want to delete that additonal line...?

Not loading the Static content from the iPlanet document base

Hi,
I have configured I-planet and BEA 7.4 successfully. The document base for my
iplanet has the pict directory.
so when i try to access the pict directory from the browser say http://<>/pict/s.gif
I get a Error 404--Not Found. I believe the web-server should serve my /pict directory
by itself . Why is it that my requests are going to Web-logic..
<Object name="hppreg" ppath="*/servlet/*">
Service fn="wl_proxy" WebLogicHost="xxx.ffc.com" WebLogicPort="7001"
</Object>
I assume only the request with the /servlet should go to Web-logic.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Nag

The oracle driver library isn't on your classpath. It's normally called something like classes12.zip under the Oracle client installation directory.
If you're working with Tomcat you need to copy the class library into common/lib and rename it to give it a .jar extension.

Weblogic 10.3 configuration for serving static content

When we deploy Web Application the default document root of application will be its own root directory. If we want to have all the xml files on the disk to be in different location other than our deployment directory you can use virtual directory mapping in our Applications deployment descriptors. Below is the information on virtual directory mapping.
virtual-directory-mapping
=============================================================================
Use the virtual-directory-mapping element to specify document roots other than the default document root of the Web application for certain kinds of requests, such as image requests. All images for a set of Web applications can be stored in a single location, and need not be copied to the document root of each Web application that uses them. For an incoming request, if a virtual directory has been specified servlet container will search for the requested resource first in the virtual directory and then in the Web application’s original document root. This defines the precedence if the same document exists in both places.
Example:
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>c:/usr/gifs</local-path>
<url-pattern>/images/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>c:/usr/common_jsps.jar</local-path>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>
Below edocs link has more information virtual directory mapping.
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs103/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#wp1039396
- - Tarun

Hi,
I have a web application deployed to one of the managed server nodes.
I need to access web application using the url http://<host>:<port>/webApp/
I dont want to use that way.
I need to access the welcome file directly without using the web application name like the one below.
http://<host>:<port>/welcome.jsp
I have read about virtual-directory-mapping and I have ran the examples which comes with weblogic installation.
I have changed the weblogic.xml that comes with my application as follows
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE weblogic-web-app PUBLIC "-//BEA Systems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 8.1//EN" "http://www.bea.com/servers/wls810/dtd/weblogic810-web-jar.dtd">
<weblogic-web-app>
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>G:/Test</local-path>
<url-pattern>/*.html</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>
</weblogic-web-app>
I have pasted fast_track.html and index.jsp to g:/Test folder.
After i restart the managed server, am still getting" 404 Page not found" error.
Kindly help.
Thanks,
Charan
Edited by: charan27 on Sep 2, 2010 8:11 AM

Serving static pages from a web application

          My weblogic environment is a a front end proxy server (httpclusterservlet or apache) for
          session failover and static page serving, and a weblogic server. I have built my application as a
          web application creating a .WAR file which is deployed on the weblogic server (and defined in the
          weblogic.properties file). The problem is static pages in the web app cannot be found (because
          they are jar'ed up in the .WAR file). Am I missing something here? Has anyone encounter a similar
          problem?
          Mike


          I have done that! The problem is FileServlet cannot read a WAR file.
          "Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >Place them in the root of the WAR.
          >
          >Peac
          >
          >--
          >Cameron Purdy
          >Tangosol, Inc.
          >http://www.tangosol.com
          >+1.617.623.5782
          >WebLogic Consulting Available
          >
          >
          >"mwofford" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >news:3a26ded6$[email protected]..
          >>
          >> My weblogic environment is a a front end proxy server (httpclusterservlet
          >or apache) for
          >> session failover and static page serving, and a weblogic server. I have
          >built my application as a
          >> web application creating a .WAR file which is deployed on the weblogic
          >server (and defined in the
          >> weblogic.properties file). The problem is static pages in the web app
          >cannot be found (because
          >> they are jar'ed up in the .WAR file). Am I missing something here? Has
          >anyone encounter a similar
          >> problem?
          >>
          >> Mike
          >
          >

Static content in iAS 6.5 (for JavaWebstart)

Hello,
I'm using iAS 6.5.
I want to serve a jar file for JavaWebstart in a J2EE App (including a war file)
That works, but it tooks a very long time before Webstart is loading this Jar and it is fully reloaded every time i access that App from Webstart.
When I put this jar file into the iPlanet Webserver it is loaded much faster and will not be reloaded every time i access this jar file with Webstart.
1. Is it possible to serve static content in iAS that Webstart is not fully reloading every time, instead of only checking the header informations for a newer version?
2. Can you give me a link to an iPlanet documentation about how to handle static content iAS/iWS !
3. Will be the iPlanet Webserver Settings (e.g. KeepAlive) ignored, when i run Webcontent from the Applicationserver (../NASApp/...)?
Kinds
Regards

JAX-RPC, JAX-M and other JAX-x are tested with JDK 1.3.x and higher. Since iAS 6.5 uses jdk 1.3.1, I think JAX-RPC, JAX-M can be used in iAS 6.5. -Officially, as far as I know, iAS 6.5 does not provide any support for JAX-pack.
Sun ONE AS 7 fully supports JAX-pack, and it has a tool, XRPCC, (now wscompile and wsdeploy) which generates stubs, ties and WSDLs for the services. Also the same tool can be used to generate the stubs, client side artifacts, from any WSDL file.
And also JAX-run time provides SOAP 1.1, UDDI v2 Registry access and WSDL support. Interoparability between JAX-Run time and other SOAP 1.1 implementations is also tested successfully.
There are several third partly tools available from different vendors (around 10-12), you may wish to search for them in google. And with that you may generate WSDL for your Apache SOAP services.
If you are planning to have a standalone web services client, then you can directly use JWSDP at the client side to communicate with the Apache SOAP services on the iPlanet Application Server 6.5.
Please get back for any further assistance.

Static contents

A weblogic domain with at least 2 managed servers on it and configured a web
application to serve
static contents and it works great.
When I add more images or htmls or any resources, then only the admin server
picks it but not the
managed servers. I have to redeploy the web application for the managed
servers to see it.
Does anybody know how setup the web application/managed servers pick up the
new static resources
without having to redeploy the web application? I can always use different
web server for it but it
increases the complexcity of the configuration for weblogic and apache/iis
Please provide some idea.
Thanks
/selvan

Selvan,
Here's the info on how to refresh data files without redeploying. In
6.1, this functionality is included in the release. For 6.0, I believe
this tool was added in 6.0 sp2 rp2, but I'm not certain. If the tool
doesn't exist in the version you have, contact support to get the
correct service pack.
     -- Jim
WebAppComponents can be refreshed without having to redeploy the whole
application. any file that doesn't have classloading implications can be
refreshed. (also known as static data). Examples of files that can be
refreshed are: .jsp , .html, .gif, .jpg, .xml, .txt etc. Files that
cannot be refreshed are class files, like ejb's, or other java classes.
Data refresh in 6.0:
In 6.0, there is a separate command line tool:
weblogic.management.tools.WebAppComponentRefreshTool
that can be invoked either on the command line, or can be constructed
from within another java application. For information on how to run the
tool from the command line, run 'java
weblogic.management.tools.WebAppComponentRefreshTool' with no arguments.
public WebAppComponentRefreshTool(String adminServerUrl,
String username,
String password,
String appName,
String compName,
String[] jsps)
username - the authenticated user...typically system
password - the authenticated user's password
appName - the name of the application (the mbean name)
compName - the name of the component (the mbean name)
jsps - an array of files to refresh.
the appName, and compName are taken from the entries in config.xml. here
is an example:
<Application
     Deployed="true" Name="MyApp"
     Path=".\config\mydomain\myapps\MyApp">
     <WebAppComponent
          Name="MyWebAppComponent"
          Targets="managedServer,myserver"
          URI="MyWebAppComponent"/>
</Application>
in this case:
appName would be MyApp
compName would be MyWebAppComponent
Data refresh in 6.1:
refresh in 6.1 works the same way as it does in 6.0, but it has been
folded into the weblogic.deploy command. you can still do refresh from
either the command line, or from within a java application, but you can
use weblogic.deploy to do it.
Selvan Ramasamy wrote:
>
A weblogic domain with at least 2 managed servers on it and configured a web
application to serve
static contents and it works great.
When I add more images or htmls or any resources, then only the admin server
picks it but not the
managed servers. I have to redeploy the web application for the managed
servers to see it.
Does anybody know how setup the web application/managed servers pick up the
new static resources
without having to redeploy the web application? I can always use different
web server for it but it
increases the complexcity of the configuration for weblogic and apache/iis
Please provide some idea.
Thanks
/selvan

Serve up Static Content - configuration?

Hello!
How can I configure WEB AS to serve up static files from an external folder? Is there a configuration in WEB AS to map a context to an external folder with static files?
Thanks
/Ray

Hi Ray,
Eddy's reply refers to setting the option on the ICM. In case you don't use the ICM, but just the Web AS Java, you can do that using the HTTP Provide Service. You can either create a virtual host (this is the term on Web AS Java for virtual directory ) and set your external directory with static content as its root directory. You can refer to the <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0b/fbf5a47928f84e8d0beba8371508e6/frameset.htm">documentation</a> for details about the configuration procedure.
Regards,
Ivo

Publishing content from reports server to a portal page

I have a system with Forms/Reports 6i in a client/server implementation. I have 6i reports server from this on the server tier. I have added 9iAS (minimal install) to get Portal and HTTP server. I have completed the configuration and I can have the portal page submit jobs to the reports server and they are displayed properly.
But I also wish to run reports from the application. This app submits jobs to the reports server via RWCLI60. I was hoping I could use 'File' as the destype and drop off content into a directory the web server knows about and then have a portal page that will generate links to the files. These could be pdf or html output.
Can anyone tell me if this is possible and provide a short list of steps to configure it? Thanks.

there is an example of this on dev2dev, see sample code, "redirect" example
(dev2dev.bea.com)
"Lancy Mendonca" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
All
In a webflow how is it possible to redirect to a portal page from a input
processor.
The situation I have is as follows. I have a homepage that has a login
portlet.
The user enters the username and password and after performing the validation
and authentication I need to redirect to another portal page that is
available
only to logged users.
Any help will be creatly appreciated

Best Practice for serving static files (gif, css, js) from front web server

I am working on optimization of portal performance by moving static files (gif, css, js) to my front web server (apache) for WLP 10 portal application. I end up with moving whole "framework" folder of the portal WebContent to file system served by apache web server (the one which hosts WLS plugin pointing to my WLP cluster). I use <LocationMatch> directives for that:
Alias /portalapp/framework "/somewhere/servedbyapache/docs/framework"
<Directory "/somewhere/servedbyapache/docs/framework">
<FilesMatch "\.(jsp|jspx|layout|shell|theme|xml)$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>
<LocationMatch "/partalapp(?!/framework)">
     SetHandler weblogic-handler
     WLCookieName MYPORTAL
</LocationMatch>
So, now browser gets all static files from apache insted of the app server. However, there are several files from bighorn L&F, which are located in the WLP shared lib: skins/bighorn/ window.css, wsrp.css, menu.css, general.css, colors.css; skins/bighorn/borderless/window.css; skeletons/bighorn/js/ util.js, buttons.js; skeleton/bighorn/css/layout.css
I have to merge these files into the project and physically move them into apache served file system to make mentioned above apache configuration works.
However, this approach makes me exposed bunch of framework resources, which I do not to intend to change and they should not be change (only custom.css is the place to make custom changes to the bighorn skin). Which is obviously not very elegant solution. The other approach would be intend to create more elaborate expression for LocationMatch (I am not sure it's entirely possible giving location of these shared resources). More radical move - stop using bighorn and create totally custom L&F (skin, skeleton) - which is quire a lot of work (plus - bighorn is working just fine for us).
I am wondering what is the "Best Practice Approach" approach recommended by Oracle/BEA - giving the fact that I want to serve all static files from my front end apache server instead fo WLS app server.
Thanks,
Oleg.

Oleg,
you might want to have a look at the official WLP performance support pattern (Metalink DocID 761001.1 ) , which contains a section about "Configuring a Fronting Web Server Serving WebLogic Portal 8.1 Static Artifacts ".
It was written for WLP 8.1, but most of the settings / recommendations should also to WLP 10.
--Stefan

Serving Portal 8.1 SP2 content from Apache 2.0.43 configured using Plugin.

Hi Friends,
Ours is a Portal Enterprise app with 3 portal web apps in 8.1 SP2.
We are planning to configure 2 Apache HTTP Web Servers as Front End Machines
(External Load Balancer) with 2 Weblogic Portal back end machines with 4
Weblogic Portal servers in a cluster.
The 2 Weblogic Portal Back end Machines will be having the same Domain
replicated by some means. So When one WL Admin Server is down, then we will
use the other.
In reference to this configuration,
We are using Apache Http Plugin from BEA.
How can we configure Apache and Weblogic server in order that all the static
content will be served by Apache and dynamic content by Weblogic Server ?
I mean to ask suppose I have webapp ,
what will be correct set-handlers that I have use in httpd.conf and any
changes to be done in Portal Web app to support this setting ?
Please explain with example.
Thanks,
Karthi.

Actually, XMLBeans are built into Workshop. Create a schema project and put your XSD into it. The beans will be generated automatically and included in your portal app.

Sepration of static content to seprate serve

I am planning to move all my static content to different server since we have 4 different webserver serving the website on different sub-domain name.
webfarm web1,web2,web3, web4
Wat i need is all the page which uses static contents should have the complete address from static.yyyyyy.com. I dont want to hard code this in the jsp file, since in future if we planned to change means it will be great difficuilty to change all the 2k files. Can anyone tell me wat is the good design logic for this. In which layer i can perform this?
i dont know whether to post in jsp forum or servlet. If i did wrongly , sorry..
Edited by: arvindwill on Sep 28, 2009 2:21 AM

Define it somewhere at 1 location (properties file? web.xml file? database?), load it during startup (ServletContextListener) and use it everywhere (using EL).

Creating a zip file from the contents of a directory

hi, I am having a problem as the title suggests with a zip fil creation...
using the basic example zip.java i wished to edit it so it doesnt zip a file fro the current directory but rather a directory i inputted.
It is able to read the first file then throws out the following error with the code below it:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: test.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified)
import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.*;
public class Zip {
   static final int BUFFER = 2048;
   public static void main (String argv[]) {
      try
         BufferedInputStream origin = null;
         FileOutputStream dest = new FileOutputStream("C:/Documents and Settings/Phil/My Documents/My Pictures/Work/test.zip");
         CheckedOutputStream checksum = new CheckedOutputStream(dest, new Adler32());
         ZipOutputStream out = new
           ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(checksum));
         //out.setMethod(ZipOutputStream.DEFLATED);
         byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER];
         // get a list of files from current directory
         File f = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/Phil/My Documents/My Pictures/Work/");
         f.listFiles();
         String files[] = f.list();
         for (int i=0; i<files.length; i++)
            System.out.println("Adding: "+files);
FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream(files[i]);
origin = new BufferedInputStream(fi, BUFFER);
ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(files[i]);
out.putNextEntry(entry);
int count;
while((count = origin.read(data, 0,
BUFFER)) != -1)
out.write(data, 0, count);
origin.close();
out.close();
catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
After investigation i am lead to believe this is because the method returns an array of file and directory names only but not their path and the unqualified names would have therefore be defaulted to the current working directory. Something i understand if this is the case.
So instead i used the File.listFiles() method to return an array
of File objects, instead of an array of Strings as shown in the snippet of the changed code below (the changed code highlighted)...but arrived at another error on the second section of highlighted code meaning i cant compile. I cant understand why this is so!
The error is: "cannot find symbol, Symbol: Contructor ZipEntry (Java.IO.file), location: class.java.util.zip.ZipEntry"
File f = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/Phil/My Documents/My Pictures/Work/");
         **************File g[] = f.listFiles();***************
         **************String files[] = f.list();**************
         for (int i=0; i<g.length; i++)
            System.out.println("Adding: "+g);
FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream(g[i]);
origin = new BufferedInputStream(fi, BUFFER);
**************ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(g[i]);************
out.putNextEntry(entry);
int count;
while((count = origin.read(data, 0,
BUFFER)) != -1)
out.write(data, 0, count);
origin.close();
out.close();
Any help and thoughts most appreciated. Thank u in advance

I'll admit i took 1 look at that reply an thought "thats stupid that wont work"...
then a second look an though "actually, i should work i cant believe i didnt think of that"
Anyways i tried it and it did work
How are the duke dollars awarded, cos u should have them ordinary_guy
cheers!

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