OHYEAH, files! I suggest mounting an NFS share on both webservers so they will write to the same place. If you're going to do this for images, I think it should be done for the entire MW installation. Then you never have to worry about each webserver being on a different version -- every webserver is serving up the same code.
\\daniel renfro -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bill Traynor Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:51 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Renfro <dren...@vistaprint.com> wrote: > Cheers Bill, > > If both webservers are using a single database, then their data should be > synchronized. What other things are you looking to synchronize? What about the files? Specifically the images directory. > > You might want to look into setting up a distributed caching system (hint: > use memcached [1].) This will share the cache amongst the webservers. You > might also want to put the codebase on an NFS drive and mount it on each of > the webservers. If you are looking into building a scalable MediaWiki > installation, I would strongly advise taking a look into Puppet [2]. > Thanks, this is great info. Unfortunately, I don't have full control over the environment, but I will make these suggestions. > \\daniel renfro > > [1.] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Memcached > [2.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_(software) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org > [mailto:mediawiki-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bill > Traynor > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 12:09 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers > > I have 2 application servers behind a load-balancer that both point to a 3rd > server where the database lives. I'm curious if there are any best practices > around keeping the two MediaWiki servers synchronized? > > I found Extension:WikiSync > (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiSync) but it doesn't look like > it's still developed. > > I assume Wikimedia does this now, anyone know how? > > Thanks > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
