iPlanet Web Server on hpux

[Shivkumar]

Hi Folks,

I am thinking to move a current web server to a temporary unix box due to some reason.

The current web server is of the model 9000/800/N4000-55 and the temporary box is of the model;9000/800/L3000-5x.

I am thinking that as both the models are different their performanc would differ significantly.

Second, the current web server has the file systems as /dev/vg00/lvol5 /opt
/dev/vgweb/lvol2 /opt/netscape/server4/docs

and the temporary box has:
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /opt

The current web server running iplanet is serving the pages from "/opt/netscape/server4/docs". Do i need to create similar file system on temp box also. or just creating a similar directory would work ?

The current box is running hpux 11.00 and the temp box hpux 11.11.

Please suggest what would be the pros and cons while making temp unix box as web server.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Bejoy C Alias]

The directory from which u want to serve the pages is depending on the configuration of ur web server software .See the configuration file to specify the document root of ur web server . If the web pages are static ( i mean simple html pages ) then there won't be any pblms in shifting the web server , but u may need to configure other things like a tomcat server if u use java servlets in ur server.

[Sandman!]

Shiv,

IMHO you should create another filesystem on the temp box similar to the current one "/opt/netscape/server4/docs" in order to avoid a performance penalty. If the web server is installed in a directory under the "/opt" FS then I/O contention would hurt performance.

On the other hand having a separate VG for the iplanet server would eliminate I/O contention between the PVs that belong to the "/opt" and "/opt/netscape/server4/docs" filesystem.

cheers!