Friday, June 8, 2012

Steps to remove a domain from Weblogic Server


As of now there is no out of the box feature with Weblogic Configuration wizard to remove or delete a domain. These are basically manual steps.
For example if I want to delete a domain named geo_domain below are the steps you need to remove the domain.

  1. Open domain-registry.xml under $Middleware_HOME .Remove the corresponding entry referring to geo_domain.
CodeSnippet :: domain-registry.xml


  1. Open nodemanager.domains file under $Middleware_HOME \wlserver_10.3\common\nodemanager\ folder. Remove the corresponding entry referring to geo_domain.
CodeSnippet :: nodemanager.domains
#Domains and directories created by Configuration Wizard
geo_domain=C\:\\Oracle\\Middleware\\user_projects\\domains\\geo_domain


  1. Delete the domain folder under domains folder manually.
$Middleware_HOME\user_projects\domains\geo_domain


  1. Delete the domain folder under applications folder manually.
$Middleware_HOME\user_projects\ applications\geo_domain