mod_weblogic

Well it had to happen eventually -- welcome to Weblogic Server :-)

Thought I'd walk through how to configure Apache as the front end server for a Weblogic Server.

Turns out, it's as easy as the proverbial:

1. Install WLS, create a domain, start it up
   
2. Download and install Apache (I used 2.2)
   
3. Copy the corresponding Apache module (for 2.2 I used mod_wl_22.so) from the WLS installation into $APACHE_HOME/modules directory
   
4. Edit $APACHE_HOME/conf/httpd.conf and enable the mod_weblogic as follows:
   
   # Load BEA Module
   LoadModule weblogic_module modules/mod_wl_22.so
   
   # Config file for WebLogic Server that defines the parameters
   Include conf/mod_weblogic.conf
   
   
5. Create the referenced mod_weblogic.conf file in which you place the configuration elements for mod_weblogic to use:
   
   # Basic config for mod_weblogic to point at my WLS instance
   
   WebLogicHost localhost
   WebLogicPort 7001
   Debug ON
   WLLogFile c:\temp\wlproxy.log
   WLTempDir c:\temp
   DebugConfigInfo On
   
   
   # Map the URLs to expose via Apache
   # Expose the console via Apache
   
   SetHandler weblogic-handler
   
   
   
6. Test the config with Apache
   
   $APACHE_HOME\bin\httpd -t
   
   
7. Start Apache
8. Access the console via Apache (assuming all default ports)
   
   http://localhost:8080/console
   

And that's the basic set of steps -- you should be looking at the WLS console being serviced via Apache.

With the config above, I've enabled the DebugConfigInfo option -- which allows you to see a bunch of useful debug/usage information by entering a URL serviced by mod_weblogic and tacking on a request parameter of the form ?__WebLogicBridgeConfig.