Oracle HTTP Server 11g Installation and Configuration – WebLogic Enabled

Oracle HTTP Server is a webserver component for Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture, which is based on Apache Webserver.  Oracle HTTP Server 11g Release – 11.1.1.7.0 is based on Apache 2.2.22 and added the modules prepared by Oracle. Oracle HTTP Server 12c Release – 12.2.1 is based on Apache 2.4.

We are discussing Oracle HTTP Server installation and configuration in this post. We can install and configure Oracle HTTP Server in two modes: Standalone mode and WebLogic enabled mode.

In this post, we are covering WebLogic enables mode on OHS 11g.

Installation Steps:

   Step 1: Install Java

   Step 2: Install Oracle WebLogic Server

   Step 3: Install Oracle HTTP Server

   Step 4: Create WebLogic Domain

   Step 6: Start Admin Server

   Step 7: Configure Oracle HTTP Server

   Step 8: Start Oracle HTTP Server

Now, we will cover each step in details.

Before starting with any installation, we need to prepare an operating system user for application installation, configuration and server maintenance. I have used Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.9 operating system and created a Virtual Machine in Oracle Virtual Box. Below commands will create the operating system user. Execute below commands with root user privilege.

groupadd -g 1000 oinstall

useradd -u 1100 -g oinstall oracle

passwd oracle

Create application directory with root user and assign the directory access to oracle user.

cd /

mkdir u01

chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/

chmod -R 775 /u01/

Also, we need to install operating system libraries for Oracle HTTP Server installation and configuration. Execute the command with root user.

yum install binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.28.el6

yum install compat-libcap1-1.10-1

yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6

yum install gcc-4.4.7-18.el6

yum install gcc-c++-4.4.7-18.el6

yum install libaio-devel-0.3.107-10.el6

yum install openmotif22-2.2.3

We need to edit the 90-nproc.conf file change the soft limit for the number of user processes.

 cd /etc/security/limits.d/

                 vi 90-nproc.conf

                

Once above pre-requisites are completed successfully, we can start the installation steps.

Step 1: - Install Java

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g required Oracle JDK with 1.6 or 1.7, and we are installing jdk1.7.0_79.

Login with oracle user and copy the files to the installation directory.

File : jdk-7u79-linux-x64

Extract the Java Package to create the JDK directory.

ls jdk-7u79-linux-x64.tar.gz

                tar –xvzf jdk-7u79-linux-x64.tar.gz

Java Installation package will be extracted and jdk1.7.0_79 directories will be created with Java Framework. Once Java installed, set the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variable in .bash_profile file.

[oracle@ohs12c ~]$ cd /home/oracle/

[oracle@ohs12c ~]$ vi .bash_profile

Save the file à Logout oracle user à Login again.

Step 2: Install Oracle WebLogic Server

Login with Oracle user and copy the WebLogic installation file wls1036_generic.jar to the software directory. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g require WebLogic server 10.3.6 as application server.

Create the Oracle Fusion Middleware Home directory.

cd /

              mkdir –p /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g

Go to software directory and install weblogic server

                cd /u01/sw

                ls wls1036_generic.jar

                /u01/sw/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java -Xmx1024m -jar wls1036_generic.jar

This will start the installation wizard and can continue by following below screenshots

Step 3: Install Oracle HTTP Server

Login with oracle user and copy the V37384-01.zip file to software directory. Change the file permission to executable and extract the file to get the installer file.

                cd /u01/sw

  chmod a+x V37384-01.zip

                unzip V37384-01.zip

Go to Disk 1 and install OHS server

                cd Disk1/

                ./runInstaller -jreLoc /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79/

This will start the installation wizard and follow the below screenshot.

We can see two options as Install & configure and Install & Do not configure. Please select ‘Install & Do not configure as we need to configure OHS after creating the WebLogic domain’.

Step 4: Create WebLogic Domain

Once the OHS installation is completed, we can create the WebLogic domain.

                cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/Oracle_WT1/common/bin/

                ./config.sh

This will start the configuration wizard and follow the below screenshots

Replace the domain with your domain name

Step 6: Start Admin Server

To start the Admin server, go to the domain directory and start the admin server. Replace the domain name with your domain name.

                cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/user_projects/domains/ohswldomain/bin/

                ./startWebLogic.sh

Below command will start the weblogic server in the background

                nohup ./startWebLogic.sh > AdminLogs.out &

This will start the admin server and redirect the logs to AdminLogs.out file in the background. If you are starting the admin server for the first time, use the startWeblogic directly and next time onwards, use this command to start the weblogic server.

Step 7: Configure Oracle HTTP Server

Once Weblogic domain is configured and admin server is started, we can configure the Oracle HTTP Server.

                cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/Oracle_WT1/bin/

                ./config.sh

This will start the OHS configuration wizard and follow the screenshots.

Replace the localhost with your hostname.

Step 8: Start Oracle HTTP Server

To start the Oracle HTTP Server using command prompt, follow the below command

cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/Oracle_WT1/instances/instance1/bin/

./opmnctl startall

To stop the Oracle HTTP Server using command prompt, follow the below command

cd /u01/app/oracle/product/fmw11g/Oracle_WT1/instances/instance1/bin/

./opmnctl stopall

To start the OHS through em console, start the Weblogic Admin server and access the em console