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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank for the detailed reply Stuart!<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 11, 2018 10:20:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> list about administration and system updating<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] Moving Winona server to Microsoft Azure</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Nathan,<br>
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> Do we need to set up a library and a student-access server, ie two separate machines?
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LON-CAPA can be run on a single server/VM.<br>
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A library server must be able to host user (web) sessions, in any case, in order to support access to Authoring
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Spaces for content creation. In effect a library server is always both a library server and an access server.<br>
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In general I would recommend just installing a single server or VM when initially setting up a LON-CAPA domain. You can then add access servers/VMs as needed, as LON-CAPA usage grows. (You'll really only start to see the
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benefits of using access servers/VMs to host student sessions if you have at least two access servers/VMs).<br>
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> Is it important to set up a redirect so that loncapa.winona.edu maps to the IP address above? Should the
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> redirect point to the library or student-access machine?<br>
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If you have a single LON-CAPA node for the winona domain, then loncapa.winona.edu should resolve to 23.99.228.207, and reverse DNS should be set so that the command: host 23.99.228.207 will report loncapa.winona.edu.<br>
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If you decide to deploy multiple LON-CAPA nodes in your domain, then you can configure one of the nodes to be a LON-CAPA load balancer node. The load balancer node is the one which should be assigned to loncapa.winona.edu. The load balancer can be a library
server. If you decide to do that, my recommendation would be to configure the LON-CAPA domain configuration for the winona domain so that users with author roles will have their sessions hosted on the load balancer/library server.<br>
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> What is necessary to move the winona domain and my problem files over to this new instance?
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The directories you will need to move from the old (hosted) instance to the new locally installed instance are: /home/httpd/lonUsers/winona and /home/httpd/html/priv/winona.<br>
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If any of your courses use content from other domains in the cross-institutional repository, you will need to have your node added to the authoritative list of LON-CAPA network nodes, maintained by the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium. Send e-mail to loncapa@loncapa.org
to request membership of the network, if you have not done that previously, (see: loncapa.org/beforeyoustart.html for more information).<br>
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Stuart Raeburn<br>
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium<br>
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From: LON-CAPA-admin <lon-capa-admin-bounces@mail.lon-capa.org> on behalf of Moore, Nathan T <nmoore@winona.edu><br>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 10:29 AM<br>
To: lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org<br>
Subject: {Disarmed} [LON-CAPA-admin] {Disarmed} Moving Winona server to Microsoft Azure<br>
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Hi all,<br>
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We plan to move the Winona loncapa server to a Linux virtual machine via Microsoft Azure services, see 23.99.228.207.<br>
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A few questions have come up with this transition - I apologize if I've missed them in the docs.<br>
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1.<br>
Do we need to set up a library and a student-access server, ie two separate machines? My guess is yes.<br>
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is it important to set up a redirect so that loncapa.winona.edu maps to the IP address above? Should the redirect point to the library or student-access machine?<br>
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What is necessary to move the winona domain and my problem files over to this new instance?<br>
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Any suggestions are appreciated!<br>
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Nathan Moore<br>
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Physics, Winona State University<br>
Winona, MN, USA<br>
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