Re: Maia on PHP 5.6 / Separate hosts for Front End and Back End?

Arnaud Launay <[email protected]> Thu, 25 May 2017 18:20:15 +0200

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Le Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:13:26AM -0400, Derek Atkins a écrit:
> Hi,
> 
> I still want to move my mail server off the current host and onto
> something more modern.  Since MAIA wont work on PHP-7, I was thinking
> that I'd split the services onto two machines, the modern mail server
> (which hah PHP-7) and a second machine (which has PHP-5.6) to run the
> front end (and nothing else).
> 
> To support this concept, I've got two questions:
> 
> 1) Will Maia, as currently implemented, work on PHP-5.6?  I know it
>    works on 5.5, so I would assume so -- but I'd rather not assume ;)

Depends on which maia you use :)

This one:

https://github.com/technion/maia_mailguard

Works fine with php 5.6

> 2) Can I split Maia onto two hosts?  I.e., can I run the php web service
>    on host (a) and the perl mail processor (maiad) on host (b)?  Assume
>    that the database is obviously shared and accessible to both (a) and
>    (b) (and indeed is running on a third host, (c)!!)

Yes. We do it here with 2 PHP frontends, and 2 perl backends
doing the "actual" job -- and 2 redundant DB above them all.

Just don't forget to run the maintenance script at the right place :)

> maiad, or if all interactions are via the database and cron jobs?

All via DB, PHP and perl don't discuss directly.

> Is this split doable?  Has anyone else done it?  Is it a reasonable
> interim solution until maia gets ported to PHP-7?

You may give a try to the above repository, I suspect it might
work with php7.

	Arnaud.

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