[LON-CAPA-admin] Help with a transition

[Lucas, Mark]

Thanks,
Mark

On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
>> I followed the directions online. The 'new' machine actually had the  
>> old installation on it.
> 
> By "directions online" I'm assuming you are referring to:
> http://loncapa.org/hardwareupgrade.html
> 
> Personally, I supplement what is documented there by also copying
> /etc/httpd/cong/loncapa.conf from the old server to the new server.
> 
>> The web brings up the "LC is Temporarily Down" page with a list of   
>> the other servers available.
> 
> I would suspect an inconsistency between the values for lonHostID and  
> lonDefDomain in /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf and the corresponding  
> items in the server's record in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
> 
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> 
> 
> Quoting "Lucas, Mark" <lucasm at ohio.edu>:
> 
>> I am upgrading my high school server from my old Dell Poweredge 2650  
>> to my newer 2950 (the
>> old ohiou library - oucapa2).
>> 
>> I followed the directions online. The 'new' machine actually had the  
>> old installation on it. I overwrote
>> /home with the contents of the HS server (ohiouk12). I ran the db   
>> converter since this is a transition from
>> 32 to 64 bit, and all went okay until I tried to bring up LC.
>> 
>> The web brings up the "LC is Temporarily Down" page with a list of   
>> the other servers available.
>> What is strange is that I could actually log in to the domains on   
>> that machine from a different machine,
>> so under the hood most things were working.
>> 
>> My problem is that I was having a hard time finding anything in the   
>> log files to hint at what happened.
>> After about 2 hours of poking around I bailed and brought my old   
>> machine back up.
>> 
>> I understand not doing a fresh install on the 'new' machine may be   
>> shooting myself in the foot (and I may
>> need to break down and do that), but does anyone have a suggestion   
>> as to what log files to check out
>> for hints as to what was broken with the httpd-LON-CAPA connection?   
>> Again, I check /var/www/httpd logs
>> and /home/httpd/perl/logs, but didn't see much.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>> 
>> --
>> Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
>> 252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
>> Department of Physics and Astronomy		fax: (740)593-0433
>> Ohio University
>> Athens, OH 45701
>> 
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Mark Lucas 								email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
252D Clippinger Lab						phone: (740)597-2984
Department of Physics and Astronomy		fax: (740)593-0433
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701