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

On Thu, May 25, 2017 12:20 pm, Arnaud Launay wrote:
> 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 :)

Far enough..  I've been using 1.0.2a, I believe, for a very long time.

> This one:
>
> https://github.com/technion/maia_mailguard
>
> Works fine with php 5.6

Good to know.  Then it's just a question of whether I can upgrade my
existing database or if I have to start over.

>> 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.

It looks like not, considering
https://github.com/technion/maia_mailguard/issues/60 is still open and the
proposed patch was never submitted or applied.

Ian seemed to imply that it wouldn't work with PHP7.

I suppose I can try it.  But if I can split it up then I can put the front
end on a slightly older OS (and lock it down).

Thanks,

> 	Arnaud.

-derek
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