You only need to SET this in IIS. However. Lets say that the IIS
server gets a request for domain ABC, file /about/index.tml. Now the
home directory for this IIS domain is \\server1\mysites\abc\.
Now the iis passes this request to the witango plugin, which picks a
server from the load balancing pool. Now lets say that the server it
sends this request to is on a different machine, we will call it
witango1.
When the request comes to witango1, witango one must also be able to
see the file /about/index.tml in the path of \\server1\mysites\abc\
OR \\server1\mysites\abc\about\index.tml
Also very important. Make a user on ALL of these machines, that has
FULL access to the paths you serve. So lets say that you make the
user WITANGO. Then make sure in IIS you set the home directory, and
the user to connect with as WITANGO. And then, ALSO make sure that
you go to the SERVICES panel, and alter the properties of the
witango55 service. Set it to login as Witango, and same pass. This
will make sure that all of your witango processes, and the IIS
process have EQUAL FULL rights to these served directories. This is
VERY important.
One more tip. If you are going to run any external processes, like
executable files, do not run them from the network share. Witango has
a habit of crashing under load in this situation. On each WITANGO
server, make a directory, called c:\scripts and put any executables
in there on ALL WITANGO machines. This way you can run from code with
the same path of:
c:\scripts\myscript.exe on any server, and this will help get around
this weakness of witango.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Robert,
Thanks for the great explanations.
When you set the home directory in IIS to a share like
\\server1\webfiles\mysite, I see that this would satisfy the IIS
requirement
in your statement "Each of the processes, the IIS process, and each
Witango
Server process must all see the same files with the same path".
Does this share designation in IIS also satisfy the "Each of the
processes
and each Witango Server process"? Or is there somewhere else I need
to do
this? It seems like proper permissions and the Witango Client takes
care of
this automatically.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Load Balancing Test
Its ok.
If you ONLY have 1 IIS server, then you are NOT doing DNS load
balancing. If your IIS server is at IP 10.0.1.1, then your domain
points to it, (www.mysite.com 10.0.1.1) then the is no dns load
balancing. When the request comes into your IIS server, the witango
plugin looks at the clients.ini file, and will load balance the
requests across however many of witango servers you have. Each of the
processes, the IIS process, and each Witango Server process must all
see the same files with the same path.
DNS load balancing occurs when you have more than one IIS server for
the same domain. You can have any number of IIS servers connecting to
any number of witango servers. The IIS server may or may not be on
the same server as the IIS servers.
When you have say 4 IIS servers, for the same domain, then there are
a couple of ways to load balance. The first is with a hardware load
balancer, which is expensive, but provides better switching upon the
failure of a web server.
The easy method is called round robin load balancing. All it requires
is that you enter multiple A records in your dns server for the same
domain.
www.mysite.com A 10.0.1.1
www.mysite.com A 10.0.1.2
www.mysite.com A 10.0.1.3
www.mysite.com A 10.0.1.4
When the browser requests address for www.mysite.com it will get all
of these, or randomly one. If it gets all, it will only try one. Load
balancing this way works fairly well, but shows its weakness when a
single IIS server dies. The you must alter your DNS to remove the
entry of the faulty server. This is why it is best to enter a small
TTL value for these multiple A records, like 30 minutes or so.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Oct 5, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Robert,
I don't mean to question, but I would like to understand.
I don't have IIS running on the second server. I don't understand
DNS load
balancing, but are you running all of your Witango websites on both
of the
servers that you are running IIS and the Witango Client and then
using DNS
Load Balancing to spread the requests across both servers?
If so, it makes sense to have the UNC notation you have indicated
below so
you only have to place all the files in one location.
Thanks,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Load Balancing Test
In IIS, you set the home directory as a share on another computer.
You set the path using UNC notation, like \\server1\webfiles\mysite
or whatever. This path must point to same files for the IIS server,
and all witango services. I have a setup with 7 servers for instance.
2 IIS servers with witango plugins, and 6 witango servers and one
file server they can all see with same UNC path.
When IIS gets a request, it passes it on to witango service with
path, and the witango service pulls the file and processes.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Robert,
Where in Windows, IIS or Witango do you indicate or use this? My
setup is
working correctly without this.
Unless:
Maybe because I have shares setup on each server with
Administrative Rights
as follows:
\\ics9\wwwroot
\\ics14\wwwroot
Thanks,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Load Balancing Test
Both servers need to have access to the files, and the web
directory,
and the path to the files must be the same for both servers. LIke:
\\Server1\webfiles\mysite\
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Fogelson, Steve wrote:
Hi,
I ran a test with the following setup.
Server A will run one Witango service and the databases will reside
here.
Server B will run IIS, Witango Client and one Witango service
Server B contains all the Witango and web files in the wwwroot
folder. IIS
is setup to run this website.
Server A does not contain any Witango and web files for this
application.
IIS is not setup to run this web site.
DNS points to the IIS website running on Server B.
The apps runs fine repeatedly (closing the browser and opening a
new one). I
can tell which Witango Service is serving the browser because one
of my
Witango services is running on a 30 day trial license and the green
trailer
displays when the browser is using this service. Also the Witango
log files
on both servers show evidence of the app running on them.
I am concluding that the Witango apps and html files only have to
be placed
on the server hosting the IIS service and Witango Client. In this
test,
server B. It appears that server A reads the Witango files from
server B and
caches them for further use.
So it also appears that you only have to maintain one set of files
on the
IIS and Witango Client server. You don't need them on subsequent
Witango
servers included in the load balancing farm.
Comments would be appreciated. Maybe everyone knows this and I just
didn't
get it.
Thanks
Steve Fogelson
Internet Commerce Solutions
FYI: Witango config for each server included below
Server A
witango.ini
VALIDHOSTS=127.0.0.1:10.10.20.14
client.ini
[witango55_iis.dll]
WITANGO_SERVER=127.0.0.1,18155
Server B
witango.ini
VALIDHOSTS=127.0.0.1
client.ini
WITANGO_SERVER=XXX14,127.0.0.1,18155:XXX9,10.10.20.9,18155
CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=0
FORCE_SERVER_ARG_NAME=_SrvID
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