[opencms-dev] environment

[Evans, Michael]

None of your issues should be a significant problem.  OpenCMS sits on the
same box as other web servers and can share the same Tomcat server as other
"well behaved" apps without problems.

If you are looking for a highly available configuration then setup two
servers, both with all the content, and then stick a load balancer infront
of them.  Add a "ping" web pages on the servers that confirm functionality
(like OpenCMS or other apps / connectivity).  The load balancer should then
be able to check the "ping" page and if it can no longer get the page the
server will be taken out of the server farm and an administrative alert
raised.

Obviously you can scale your solution easily then as you can add new servers
as necessary...


Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Alois Franz [mailto:alois.franz at epimusic.de]
Sent: 14 February 2003 13:14
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] environment


Hi everybody,

has anybody any experience in using a dedicated or a shared server as an
installation environment for openCms?
If using a dedicated server what's about 'operation security' or server
'downtime', I mean if the server turns out for some reason how do you handle
backup monitoring???
And using a shared server, what's about the security manager and the
'catalina.policy'????

Thanks in advance for your help, ALOIS