Dave,
All of the answers below are true from TTS BUT..
I did the install and have not successfully gotten Tomcat to run with the
old version. 6.1 runs WELL but will not 'play' with the old tomcat package.
Bear that in mind. Tenon have said there is a new version on it's way soon.
Alain
> Dave,
>
>> hi again,
>>
>> In the middle of upgrading a number of servers so lots of issues coming
>> to light:
>>
>> 1/ Is there any guideline for the max number of virtual hosts per
>> server?. I know server spec will have a lot to do with it but lets say
>> its a g4 with 512mb ram and 8 gb internal drive. These are dedicated
>> Apache servers so no DNS, mail or workstation apps running. Squid is
>> disabled too. At the moment I have a number of these servers running
>> about 40-50 sites each. The older version of iTools has been behaving
>> oddly for a number of weeks so going to bite the bullet and move on up
>> to 6.1 on 10.0.4. Each server averages about 100K hits a day across the
>> 50 sites.
>
> It all depends on the traffic and the size of the hits.
>
>> In an ideal world I would like to think I could safely run 100 sites per
>> server, is this realistic?
>
> I should think that it could easily handle two times as much though.
>
>>
>> 2/ I have a G4 server with iTools 6.0 on 10.0.4. It is configured to run
>> customer JSP's with Tomcat and also PHP scripts. If I run the iTools 6.1
>> installer as per the release notes, will i lose all my configuration
>> data? (tomcat config, apache config, user database etc).
>
> No, no config should be lost.
>
>>
>> 3/ To upgrade from OS X Server (old version) to 10.0.4 I need to rebuild
>> the OS from scratch, erasing the hard disk. With a moderate number of
>> sites on the server and customer SLA's I can't back up the sites,
>> install and restore. I have to temporarily relocate the sites onto
>> another iTools server, do the install and move them back again. While
>> this is messy (needs DNS changes with propagation delays on both sides
>> of the move) it should work. Are there any shortcuts I should be aware
>> of?
>
> Not really, we will have a paper on upgrading soon, rather than wait
> for 2 DNS changes you may want to set up a route in your router to
> redirect all traffic from one ip to the other. This will give no
> downtime while you install rather than the excruciating difficulties
> with DNS propagation.
>
>>
>> 4/ Finally, we are about to introduce a centralised backup server on the
>> network (mixed with NT, Win2k, OSX, Linux). We will most likely be using
>> a high speed DLT drive and ArcServeIT with appropriate agents. As no
>> agent exists for OSX we will tar up the correct directories and FTP'em
>> over to a Win2K server on a cron job. Am I correct in assuming the
>> directories to be tar'd are:
>>
>> /Library/WebServer
>> /private/etc/httpd
>
> You may want to back up the whole /etc folder as to get all of your
> DNS settings and private keys.
>
>>
>> In a disaster recovery scenario I should be able to clean install OSX
>> and iTools onto the repaired server (same network config) and simply
>> replace the directories with the ones from above?
>>
>> Lots of questions but I think the answers could be useful to others,
>>
>> thanks again,
>>
>> dave.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Reddy
>> Weblink Internet Ltd.
>> 5 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.
>> T: +353 1 250 0000 F: +353 1 250 0099 DDI:+353 1 250 00 33
>
>
> TTS
> --Jeff
>
>
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