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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:08:55+00:00

I am having a frustrating problem with virtual directory mapping in my very simple

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I am having a frustrating problem with virtual directory mapping in my very simple WebLogic 11g application. I installed WebLogic 11g OEPE, which installs WebLogic Server 10.35. I believe that this is installed correctly, because I am able to deploy a much more complicated application that is working fine…except for my issue with virtual directory mapping.

I want to access files from a directory outside of the web application, H:\Backup.

Here is my entire application, and these are my exact files.

wl_test/index.html

<html>
<head><title>WebLogic Test</title></head>

<body>
<h1>This is another new test<br>
</body>
</html>

wl_test/WEB-INF/web.xml

<web-app>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

wl_test/WEB-INF/weblogic.xml

<weblogic-web-app>
    <virtual-directory-mapping>
         <local-path>H:/Backup/</local-path>
         <url-pattern>/files/*</url-pattern>
         <url-pattern>*.txt</url-pattern>
    </virtual-directory-mapping>
</weblogic-web-app>

When I access the HTML file, ‘http://localhost:7002/wl_test/index.html‘, it loads perfectly fine.

However when I attempt to load either of the following two URLs, they both fail with a HTTP 404 error. And yes, both of those files, one.ini and asdf.txt exist in the H:\Backup directory.

  1. ‘http://localhost:7002/wl_test/files/one.ini&#8217;
  2. ‘http://localhost:7002/wl_test/asdf.txt&#8217;

What could be wrong with this trivial setup?

I’m beginning to think I don’t understand how this is supposed to work.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think I understand what has changed and how to fix everything.

    There were two problems with the virtual directory mapping.

    First, the local-path cannot be a MS-DOS SUBSTed drive. I don’t understand why, but WebLogic doesn’t like it.

    Second, when the url-pattern contains a folder, like /files/*, that folder must exist in the local-path directory.

    Both of these are allowed in the JRun server that this is being ported from.

    Sigh,
    Randy Stegbauer

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