[opencms-dev] Installing OpenCMS on multiple Tomcat's and using MySQL Cluster

[Jordi Marti]

Hello Gary,

Yes, that's basically what OCEE is for: to be able to have one database 
and several tomcats.

When you publish in one tomcat, this publication has to replicate to 
other servers, as they are not notified about this publication (so 
images, jsp, exports, text indexes, locks, etc. can be different from 
the original tomcat). To be able to do that, OCEE module exists.

In the other hand, you really CAN have that configuration you are 
talking about without OCEE; but you have to know and understand these 
limitations. Most of the time we think about developing ourselves 
workarounds to avoid these limitations, but myself I have proved that at 
then end, the total development is worth to buy the OCEE license.

To get the installation done, you have to:
- Install Opencms in one of the tomcats.
- ZIP (war) the "opencms" folder once the installation is done, and put 
in in the other tomcat.
- Make some minor changes in opencms.properties (Basically, rename the 
server and the mac address).

With that, you should be able to start up both tomcats and see opencms 
in both places. Basically, what I do is to make changes in one tomcat, 
publish them in that tomcat, go to the other tomcat, touch the folders 
or files that I changed, and publish them in that other tomcat. As you 
can see, if you really need that to be operative, you need ocee.

I have never tried a Mysql Cluster, but I guess it should work...

I must say that last month I bought the OCEE cluster and opencms 
support, and I'm happy that I did :)

Good luck

El 05/11/12 19:16, Gary Gardner escribió:
> I have searched and have seen people mention that they have gotten 
> this configuration to work.  However, I haven't seen it documented any 
> where.
>
> Can someone point me to where this is documented?
>
> I have installed OpenCMS successfully on one server running Tomcat and 
> it's connected to the MySQL Cluster and created the database and 
> tables and all is working great.
>
> Now I need to install it on the other server and Tomcat.  Is it as 
> simple as deploy the opencms.war file and modify the 
> opencms-system.xml to attach it to the MySQL Cluster?  If I run set 
> up, won't it try to drop the database and tables, etc?
>
> I have also seen mention of this OCEE.  Do I need that at all?  I am 
> basically trying to create an HA/Load balanced solution.  I'm sure 
> that this is not new to others that are running OpenCMS, but it is 
> totally new to me.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> If there is a particular forum post that is pertinent, please include 
> that as well.
>
>
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