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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>    - All content servers use the same memcached server for cache
>    - PHP sessions shared via NFS
>    - Images shared via NFS (./images/ linked to NFS shared directory )
>    - Local file cache turned off
>
> The files shared via NFS are on a different server. This has worked well
> for us and there is only very rarely an issue with the cached content of
> certain pages (usually cleared up with a purge for that page).
>
> On 23 October 2014 12:09, Bill Traynor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 doesn't look
>> like it's still developed.
>>
>> I assume Wikimedia does this now, anyone know how?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bill
>>
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