[opencms-dev] environment

[Evans, Michael]

Alois,

Can you describe the kind of scenario you are thinking about... Are you
think of ISP type services?  Or corporate divisions?  Or a shared server
running multiple apps?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Alois Franz [mailto:alois.franz at epimusic.de]
Sent: 17 February 2003 10:19
To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] environment


Hi Mike, thanks for your answer, but how do provider generally guarantee the
data security, if they don't take advantage of any safety
manager(catalina.policy)?
Thanks, ALOIS



----- Original Message -----
From: "Evans, Michael" <EvansM at visa.com>
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] environment


> 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