[LON-CAPA-users] Running additional apache applications on lon capa server

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi Donald,

No, this is not an option! For both maintenance and security reasons,  
we strongly discourage running additional applications on the same  
(virtual) server. Particularly looking at Zikula, which is an  
application development framework, there are additional stability  
concerns.

The effort in editing and maintaining the configuration files would  
probably outweigh the savings for hardware; a server with nice  
virtualization support is not *that* expensive. Also, even old servers  
run virtualization, just not as nicely.

- Gerd.

On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:58 AM, D G Teed wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are wondering if anyone else has been able to set up
> other web services running on their lon capa server.
>
> There is an interest here of running zikula CMS on
> the same server as Lon Capa.  The server hardware
> predates the virtualization support in newer systems
> so I don't think that would be a solution.
>
> In what I've seen, Lon Capa customizes the inits surrounding
> httpd, so it wouldn't be my first choice in where to host it,
> but given budget constraints, this is being asked.
> I would think it would be difficult to maintain
> a set up of a second web application on loncapa, but
> perhaps there is a method.
>
> --Donald
>