Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Sumana Harihareswara > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thomas, am forwarding to the list - hope folks can help you out! You'll >> want to subscribe so as to get replies. :) >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: RE: Status of Collection Extension in Powerpedia >> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:16:42 -0400 >> From: Kern, Thomas (CONTR) <[email protected]> >> To: 'Sumana Hariharwswara' <[email protected]> >> >> Hello, my name is Thomas Kern. I am the Linux system administrator that >> is responsible for building and maintaining the servers that support >> DOE's Powerpedia (MediaWiki 1.18). During the recent upgrade of the >> servers from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and MediaWiki from 1.16 to 1.18, the >> wiki administrators wanted to switch from a PDF print add-on that >> produced a PDF for that one requested wiki page to the Collection add-on >> so that "books" of wiki pages could be created. I installed the >> Collection add-on and the rendering services in the same dev/test server >> that host the dev/test Mediawiki and its database. That works rather >> well. The real problems arose when I tried to move it into production. >> >> Our production environment is more complex. We have 4 servers, one for >> the database (lnxwiki0), two for the wiki web servers (lnxwiki1 & >> lnxwiki2) and a utility server (lnxwiki3) to host the rendering services >> and the pywiki-bots. The two web servers are front-ended by our F5 >> appliance that provides one name and IP address for Powerpedia and >> round-robins the traffic to the two web servers. When I turn on >> Collection in the production system, the process of selecting wiki pages >> for a book works fine and when it gets submitted for rendering, the >> rendering services seem to work until the user gets the screen that says >> the book is ready and presents the URL for it. When that is selected, >> the user gets an error that the file doesn't seem to exist. A tcpdump of >> the transaction shows the rendering request coming in from >> https://powerpedia.energy.gov/wiki/Special:Book and trying to go back to >> the same NAME. I think having Powerpedia being a virtual entity of two >> servers is what is causing problems. I think that is Collection could >> communicate with the rendering server using the REAL host name that is >> setting up the book, then the rendering server could communicate >> directly back to that server to deliver the book. >> >> Any help, guidance, configuration hints for this would be greatly >> appreciated. > > Looks like Thomas already asked this over a month ago and no one > replied to him[0].
Right (and at least I did it intentionally). I think the OP's problem description is rather incomplete (logs are missing; it's missing a description of the exact commands used to run the render server; even the exact error message is missing). -- Cheers Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en.
