On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:59, Peter Billson wrote: > She's already got a Thinkpad running woody and I'd like to have the > her be able to just sync the notebook up to the real server and away > they go. The snyc process should add and delete any new domains, > content, etc. during the sync process with little or no interaction. > > The notebook would need to be totally stand alone, running all needed > services (MySQL, DNS, Apache, etc.) but still be able to interact with > the Web server (which means I can't simply clone the whole machine).
Rsync of course is what you want to use for the content transfer, but I guess you already knew that. I suggest using Apache bulk virtual hosting for the multiple domains. That means you can have the same Apache config on both machines. Now you want to have bind installed on the web server with copies of all the DNS for zones it serves. After copying that data you could run a sed script over the zone files that changes the IP address to 127.0.0.1. Then all requests go to the local Apache installation which looks up the directory using bulk virtual hosting. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
