Using Weblogic as a front end web server

Hi all, recently there has been a push for us to investigate moving our Iplanet
web servers to Weblogic. So our architecture would be WLS web instances on the
front and passing back to WLS app servers on the back end. We would need to run
SSL and none SSL and handle certificates and multiple applications on each web
server as well as serve up static content. Has anybody had any experience with
going to this set up, and if so would you recomend it ? It looks way harder then
setting up a Apache or Iplanet web server.

"Mark Griffith" <[email protected]> wrote:
You should check out 8.1, SSL configuration is simpler there.
I would say in general that the main weakness of WLS as a web server
is on
the administration side of things.
Cheers
mbg
"Eric Sundberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3ebfce80$[email protected]..
Hi all, recently there has been a push for us to investigate movingour
Iplanet
web servers to Weblogic. So our architecture would be WLS web instanceson the
front and passing back to WLS app servers on the back end. We wouldneed
to run
SSL and none SSL and handle certificates and multiple applicationson each
web
server as well as serve up static content. Has anybody had any experiencewith
going to this set up, and if so would you recomend it ? It looks wayharder then
setting up a Apache or Iplanet web server.
thanks for the heads up

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