Hello,
We are gearing up to upgrade two of our production DSpace instances in the
near future. One instance is currently at DSpace version 1.5.1/JSPUI and the
other is at 1.7.1/JSPUI. As part of these upgrades, we are going to be making
the following DSpace application configuration changes:
1. Switch from using IPlanet web server to Apache Tomcat
2. Implement a standalone server on which the PostgreSQL databases will
reside (we're separating the database from the application)
With these new configuration changes, we have some questions:
1. In IPlanet, we've always used a single instance of the webserver, with
multiple virtual servers running under it and we plan to continue this set-up.
IPlanet has a nice GUI web interface and it's always been easy to set up and
maintain these multiple instances. Our question is this: Is this approach
going to work for us with Apache Tomcat? Would it be better for us to use
standalone Tomcat or the Apache webserver with a connector to Tomcat? What do
most DSpace installations use? Any recommendations? Also, is there a GUI
interface for Tomcat?
2. Since we first implemented DSpace back in 2005, we've made a considerable
number of code customizations - most are presentation layer (look and feel)
changes including mandates for things we must have on government web sites; and
some are business logic changes. In the past, when we have finished testing a
new version of DSpace and begin our Production implementation, we've always
created a new directory for the source on the Production server and then copied
the source directory from Test to Production. We then make the dspace.cfg file
changes, etc, etc., then assemble and compile the application. So basically we
are reinstalling DSpace on the Production server. I was asked if we could just
copy over the executable files to the Production server, for security reasons,
and somehow I'm thinking this would be difficult, if not impossible. Has
anyone done this? Thoughts?
One other thing...we will likely implement the JSPUI version of DSpace 3.x
in the smaller of the two instances, and maybe bite the bullet and implement
the XMLUI version of 3.x in our large instance (currently 195,673 Items and
188,024 documents and growing daily). It's making me a little nervous that
we're still so far behind version-wise with the one DSpace instance AND that
more and more folks seem to be implementing the XMLUI interface. We don't like
being left behind. :)
Thanks in advance,
Sue
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Sue Thornton
Software Developer/DBA
SGT, Inc. ~ LITES Contract
NASA Langley Research Center
130 Research Drive, Hampton, VA. 23666
Office: (757) 224-4130 Mobile: (757) 506-9903 Fax: (757) 224-4001
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