[ale] help with Apache redhat setup

[Randy Ramsdell]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 19:52 -0500, mark walters wrote:
> I'm rebuilding 2 machines and was seeking advice on some setup issues.
> Here is the current setup.
> 
> Currently Machine One runs Redhat with Apache 1.3.3. With minimum
> number of secure users.
> Machine 2 runs Redhat with over 100 users that ssh or ftp in and
> upload files for personal web pages.
> Machine 1 NFS mounts  Machine 2 and serves up web pages from user
> accounts that are only on Machine 2 .
> The Main sites data sits on Machine 1  serving  domain www.site.com
> and user data sits on Machine 2 and serves www.site.com/~user through
> the NFS mount.
> I would like to get away from the NFS mounts.
> 
> I'll have the following components available for a new solution
> 2 blades in an enclosure attached to a San via redundant fiber channel cards.
> Available Redhat versions:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS and ES for x86
> I will be using Apache 2 (latest version that ships with Redhat).
> I won't have access to Redhat GFS .
> I'm in the planning phase and open to all ideas except setting up a cluster.
> I would still like to have:
> Machine 1 with minimum of secure users
> Macine 2 with general accounts accessing storage space for web pages.
> I would like machine one as primary web server serving www.site.com
> I would like to have general user data on Machine 2  with www.site.com/~user
> Thanks in advance for the help.
> Mark
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What kind of suggestions were you looking for? 

You could run an rsync server on M1 and a cron job that sends the
uploaded user data from M2.

Or you could run Apache on M2 just for the users web pages.

I would probably do the first suggestion and it seems more clean. 

RCR