Re: [MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

2014-10-27 Thread Justin Lloyd
No problem, I'm glad to answer your questions to ensure I'm providing all relevant info. I do have five wikis, not just one as used in the previous explanation. Each of the five wikis has its own Apache vhost and documentroot directory on each of the four servers, making for 20 copies of MediaWiki.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

2014-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Another question if this is a single wiki why not again rsync that across the 4 servers that way when you update one you have them all updated easily via rsync when a new release of MW comes out. I think its best I step back on this as I am no wiki expert at all. I can provide solutions to certain

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

2014-10-27 Thread Justin Lloyd
I think my explanation was not the clearest it could have been. Let's say for the moment that I have one wiki. That wiki is served by a load balancer in front of a server farm consisting of four Apache vhosts, one per physical server, each with its own copy of MediaWiki, LocalSettings.php, etc. Thu

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

2014-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
You are mentioning NFS why not use rsync to replicate to a 2ndary nfs server and set it to run lets say every 5 to 10 min or how ever often you want to keep the 2ndary server updated. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Justin Lloyd wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently I have five wikis with the largest

[MediaWiki-l] Load balancing web servers and multimedia content

2014-10-27 Thread Justin Lloyd
Hi all, Currently I have five wikis with the largest one being about 35k articles (109k pages) and pretty heavily trafficked. My basic server architecture is four web servers behind a load balancer and with a single NFS server that shares out a directory that contains the upload directory content

Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikitech-l] Requiring PHP >= 5.3.3 for MediaWiki core

2014-10-27 Thread Krinkle
On 24 Oct 2014, at 17:31, James Forrester wrote: > > ​How much longer? 1.25 is May 2015; Wikimedia's ZAP -> HAT migration is > nominally to be finished within a month…​ > Since neither ZAP or HAT is defined anywhere on wikitech or mediawiki.org, created: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Z