WLS 11 Apache Plugin

Installing Apache Webserver in Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 as reverse proxy  to Weblogic Domain

 OEL Prerequisite : please make sure you have this packages else the apache build will fail

 rpm -ivh gcc-4.1.2-50.el5.x86_64.rpm glibc-devel-2.5-58.x86_64.rpm  glibc-headers-2.5-

58.x86_64.rpm  kernel-headers-2.6.18-238.el5.x86_64.rpm

libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-50.el5.x86_64.rpm     gcc-c++-4.1.2-50.el5.x86_64.rpm
they are part of the OS media

Apache Server

1.      Download the apache source code and Weblogic plugin to /home/oracle/apache

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22

2.      mkdir -p /u01/app/apache/product  

                           

3.      cd /home/oracle/apache/

4.      tar -xf  httpd-2.2.22.tar

5.      cd httpd-2.2.22

6.      ./configure --prefix=/u01/app/apache/product  --enable-module=so

7.      make install

8.      make

Weblogic Plugin

plugin can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/wls-plugins-096117.html, I assume you have weblogic domain ready.

1.      cd /home/oracle/apache

2.      mkdir plugin

3.      unzip WLSPlugin11g-64bit-Apache2.2-linux64-x86_64.zip -d plugin

4.      cp  plugin/lib/mod_wl.so /u01/app/apache/product/lib/

5.      cd  /u01/app/apache/product/conf

6.      vi httpd.conf add entries specific to each domain

#load module

LoadModule weblogic_module   product\lib\mod_wl_20.so

#tag for plugin

  WebLogicHost myweblogic.server.com
  WebLogicPort 7001 

vide http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15051_01/wls/docs103/plugins/apache.html#wp131399

7.      start the apache instance  #apachectl start  (script available in the bin directory of apache)