Starting and Stopping Weblogic Application server

This short article is about how to start and stop the weblogic server using the commands

basically to start the server you need to start the Admin Server of the installation of the weblogic.
To start the Admin server go to the following path
/WebLogic_Home/Domain_Name/bin

and there you will find several shell scripts or windows command files to start and stop the server.

to start the Admin server run the startWeblogic.sh

./startWeblogic.sh

after the Admin server starts you will be able to connect to to the admin server using the browser and opening the Admin Console

Now that the admin server is running you need to run the Application server
The application server needs the Node manager to be able to run using the Admin server
to run the node manager go to the following path
/Weblogic_Home/Weblogic10/server/bin
then run the startNodeManager.cmd/startNodeManager.sh script

after running the node manager you will be able to control the application server from the admin server

or you can start the managed application server using the script as follows
go to the following path
/WebLogic_Home/Domain_Name/bin

then run the startManagedWebLogic.cmd/startManagedWebLogic.sh script followed by the server name and the url of the admin server
to stop the managed application server use the stopManagedWebLogic.cmd/stopManagedWebLogic.sh script followed by the server nae and the admin server URL