First of all, I want to say Thank you to Sean and Bram for answering some questions for me regarding the email below. The answer to #2 is, I believe, yes, but for the dspace.cfg file. We'd either have to re-do it or have a Prod. and a Test version. I think we can work that out.
I believe our PostgreSQL server is going to work nicely and will only be a matter of having the correct configuration property in dspace.cfg. The only question I still need answered - and please forgive me if you answered it and I didn't catch on since I've always used IPlanet is this: Do most DSpace installations use DSpace with standalone Tomcat or Apache webserver with a connector to Tomcat? Again -thanks for the help. I'm learning new stuff every day. :) Best regards, Sue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sue Thornton Office: (757) 224-4130 Mobile: (757) 506-9903 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Thornton, Susan M. (LARC-B702)[LITES] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 6:52 PM To: dspace-tech ([email protected]) Subject: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 3.x configuration questions 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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