Hi Jordan, I'm a Windows Admin. Even though I know a *nix based install would probably be better, I'm significantly more comfortable in a Windows Environment with Microsoft SQL. My current install is a Jetty r2r install of openBD 1.2, and it was running fine. Last night I installed the latest java package, and since then, I haven't been able to get jetty to start.
I have a vmWare ESXi host, and I just finished setting up a new Windows 2003 WebServer. With the Jetty install, I have all of my configs, etc. setup so I can just plug them in and turn up my site. It's the site you tested and I am thankful for that. Now that I'm nearing the point to actually set some of this site live, and I need to do a reinstall now anyway, I'm going to step back and reconsider how I want to deploy this. I'm ok with IIS, but I really like how lean jetty is. Once I decide on how I want to deploy, I am going to make copies of the vm, and deploy it in a network load balanced farm. I'm using pfSense as my firewall, and it supports NLB. So I will just deploy 3 copies of the vm, change hostname to wwwX (www1,www2,www3), and change the IP. The pfSense will act as the VIP that initial requests hit. Having said that, another thing I liked about Jetty was everything was done via .XML and as I need to do reinstalls or deploy more servers or, in my case, update live servers with updated configs from an approved staging server, it's all easy to do. What are the advantages to the Windows Installer vs r2r package? -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
