Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-31 Thread Larry Silverman
I've seen Unison mentioned frequently in the same breath as rsync. I'm much more familiar with rsync myself. Check me on this, but I think rsync is a one-way sync tool. Seems to me that's not going to work out to keep multiple wiki nodes in sync unless

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-31 Thread Bill Traynor
Forget the SAN question, apparently that's not shareable either. So I think I'm stuck with implementing an rsync script to keep my app servers synced. On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Bill Traynor wrote: > I've been told that NFS is NOT allowed in the environment where I'm > configuring my wiki

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-31 Thread Bill Traynor
I've been told that NFS is NOT allowed in the environment where I'm configuring my wiki. Can the /images directory reside on shared SAN mount? Or, am I better off just writing an rsync script to keep the application servers synced? Thanks Bill On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Dave Humphrey wr

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Humphrey
We (www.uesp.net) have a similar MediaWiki setup and here is roughly how we have set it up (whether it is a "good" design is another question): - Multiple content servers running Apache with identical copies of the MediaWiki PHP files - Squid load balancer in front of the content servers

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Justin Folvarcik
> \\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: MediaW

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Larry Silverman
; \\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 > Subje

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Daniel Renfro
bject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Renfro 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? Wha

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Traynor
t; 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

Re: [MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Daniel Renfro
: [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

[MediaWiki-l] synchronizing two MW servers

2014-10-23 Thread Bill Traynor
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 doe