Re: Errors on mod_backhand install process

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:04:50 -0500, Andrew Osborn <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Ok I installed it successfully using apache 1.3.31. I installed php
> and mysql and everything else I need....now what? I looked though a
> lot of documentation but didn't see what I needed. I know I need to
> have mod_backhand on each server but does each server need to be the
> exact same?

That depends on what you want to use your clustered highly available web  
server system for.


> And I change my webpages daily so would I have to change them on both
> servers at the same time? If so, what ways have you found to be the
> best/fastest.

NFS mounts if you're Unix inclined, or you can share a directory on your  
desktop XP machine and mount that on the front-end web servers. Both  
schemes are very inefficient compared to having the files local on a disk  
on the web server, but it's very convinient. Make sure the access is  
read-only on either scheme to improve the efficiency.


> And if the servers need to be exact would ghost 4 unix be a good way
> of making both servers the exact same.

Well, a stock install of your favoured Unix or Linux plus a copy of Apache  
+ mod_backhand + whatever in /opt/ is how we favour it here. It's probably  
no more hassle doing it that way than it would be ghosting the disks and  
re-configuring the second machine with its settings.

Regards,
	_Gus



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