time for praise - future thoughts

macangelo · Post by **macangelo** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 07:54

First of all: Dear Oliver,
I published my 5th phpwcms site now, getting faster and faster - just a great piece of work! Thank you!

Secondly: Dear PHPWCMS Community,
I never encountered an online community that is so helpful, concerning, constructive and fast as this one. Thank you all!

ok, now my thoughts: I'm hosting my 5 phpwcms sites on 3 different servers. As much as I appreciate the frequent and helpful updates I'm thinking about how it might be possible to make the update process more easy and secure. I'm thinking about 2 ways. One would be to host the central phpwcms in one place and only the individual scripts and databases on the decided server. The other way would be to provide foolproof scripts. Since I'm not much of a programmer I can't think that out. Beside the work of course this would mean - are this possible ways to go?

I read the impressive todo-list Oliver provided. There is a lot I can really use!. This is going to be great! A feature I could really use - specially for the university projects - is a more differentiated user administration. This was an issue in former threads ( I don't find them right now so I don't know where the discussion is...)

Again thanks a lot and all the best.

Macangelo

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Mon 14. Jun 2004, 22:34

All I can say: I will

Central phpwcms installation: use symbolic links. Maybe I should also move all custom config files to another directory...

Oliver

P.S. Was fahrt Ihr da für einen internen "langsamen" Webserver?

macangelo · Post by **macangelo** » Tue 15. Jun 2004, 05:08

Hi Oliver,
thank you for your response.

use symbolic links

What are symbolic links? And to the central phpwcms installation - since we sometimes change a little in files that are not meant to be changed which are no custom config files I can fantasize that everything, I changed I have on my decided server, everything that the phpwcms does not find here is retrieved from the central installation.

E.G. Suppose I changed the print layout. I would put the changed files - let's say the file that creates the print page plus the css in the appropriate folder structur on my decided server and it will be parsed from here. If it is not found here, the print page from the central installation will be used.

I have no idea if this is possible or recommendable (reg. speed) - just thinking...

P.S. Was fahrt Ihr da für einen internen "langsamen" Webserver?

good question. OK, the 2 university web sites ( http://www.mwvi.de/pcm and http://www.mwvi.de/research ) are hosted on a simple windows machine. And secondly beside the apache server it's also hosting a filemaker web server - with unfortunately not much traffic.

But what I don't understand - it's additionally slow. The machine sitting half a meter away is normally fast (it's at least a 2 mbit connection). The funny thing is, when I hook the web-server off the net, use the same ip on my note book, my note book is slow with internet connections. When I switch my notebook back to it's original ip, it's normally fast. The whole ip stuff is not my subject - but: how can an ip be slow?

all the best
Macangelo

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 15. Jun 2004, 06:51

The route can be

OK, Windows does not support symbolic links.

On *NIX systems you can use command "ln" to create an alias to a folder/file which is seen by the system as it were real. Like the "alias" on Macintosh. "Verknüpfung" auf Windows verhält sich leider nicht so.

Oliver

macangelo · Post by **macangelo** » Tue 15. Jun 2004, 07:10

Schade, damit disqualifiziert Windows Unzulänglichkeit mal wieder meine Idee...

Macangelo