Weblogic 10.3 configuration for serving static content

Question

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
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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

Answer 1

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