[LON-CAPA-admin] Server migration: Connection to LON-CAPA cluster lost?

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

Yes, you would be disconnected from the cluster if any of the  
"coordinates" of the machine change. What is the new URL of the  
machine (i.e., which one of the two machines are we talking about)?

- Gerd.

On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:25 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some days ago we have migrated our LON-CAPA server from the old  
> machine
> (SLES9) to the new one (FC5) including transfer of all the data. This
> seemed to work fine for us. Nothing special to mention so far.
>
> Now we found out that the users cannot access the other servers in the
> LON-CAPA cluster anymore. In "Browse Resources" the other domains are
> shown but no content is available (e.g. /res/msu/ is empty). The  
> Search
> shows the domains in the selection box but finds nothing.
>
> Peter told me that he could use the Search once yesterday but a second
> try only provided no results.
>
> That's what I did:
> - Installed new server
>   - LON-CAPA domain and servername were kept
>   - IP address and DNS name changed
> - Transfered data (/home/..., ...)
> - Old server set to "STANDALONE"
> - Executed loncapa-2.4.2/UPDATE on new server
>   - Set to "PRODUCTION"
> - cp /home/httpd/lonTabs/dns_domain.tab /home/httpd/lonTabs/domain.tab
> - cp /home/httpd/lonTabs/dns_hosts.tab /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
> - Changed DNS name in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab from old to the  
> new one
> - Executed /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl as www (*1)
> - Restarted httpd and loncontrol
>
> *1:
> Guy Albertelli II wrote (December 15, 2006 6:43 pm):
> --------
> Iyou do want the published resources to appear as search results, You
> can run
>
> /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl
>
> as www.
> --------
>
>
> Is there something else or different necessary?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan Bisitz
>
>
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