On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Nigel Dodd <nigeld...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am trying to build a linux, apache, mysql, php server that I can easily > move from machine to machine. > I am assessing the feasibility of putting all the configuration files, the > virtual server defining files (those in sites-enabled etc), the website > files (normally found in /var/www/....) on a removable disk. In addition to > those are the mysql database files and config files and the php files but > those aren't the concern of this group. > My understanding is that apache2 is compiled to expect to find its main > config file in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf but that in that file I can change > the lines > ServerRoot "/etc/apache2" > . > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/ > . > Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ > to point to a different location i.e. the usb disk. > I think I will leave > LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock > alone. > Inside all the virtual server files such as > /usbdisk/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite > I need to change the > DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite > lines to /usbdisk/var/www/mysite > My concern is that I am missing something or that this is a silly idea. I > can't find any information about making a portable server and this adds to > my concerns. > Perhaps I should say why i am doing this. I have had various computers go > down due to hardware failure. I have had backups or I have transferred the > files before ultimate disk failure. But each time it takes me a day or so to > set up a new server. I think that if all the files were kept on a usb disk > which itself was mirrored then by changing a few directives in the config > files for apache, mysql and php I would be able to mount the usb drive and > away we go. > Nigel > > -- > public pgp key at > http://www.neuralsolutions.co.uk/gpg.txt >
You will need a statically linked version of the binaries you put on the usbdisk, otherwise, the libraries listed by ldd <binary>, should be present on every distribution you move to. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
