Most people know WebLogic has a built in web server. Typically this is not an issue as you deploy java applications and WebLogic publishes to the web. But what if you just want to display a simple static HTML page. In WebLogic you can develop a simple web application to display static HTML content.

In this example I used WLS 10.3.3. I want to display 2 files, an HTML file, and an xsd for reference.

1. Create a directory of your choice, this is what I will call the document root.
   
   mkdir /u01/oracle/doc_root
   
2. Copy the static files to this directory 
3. In the document root directory created in step 1 create the directory WEB-INF
   
   mkdir WEB-INF
   
4. In the WEB-INF directory create a file called web.xml with the following content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
</web-app>

5. Login to the WebLogic console to deploy application
   
6. Click on Deployments
   
7. Click on Lock & Edit
   
8. Click Install and set the path to the directory created in step 1
   
   
   
9. Leave default "Install this deployment as an application" and click Next
   
   
   
10. Select a Managed Server to deploy to and click Next
    
    
    
11. Accept the defaults and click Finish 
    
12. Deployment completes successfully, now click the Activate Changes
    
    
    
13. You should now see the application started in the deployments
    
    
    
14. You can now access your static content via the following URL
    
    http://localhost:7001/doc_root/helloworld.html