[support] development and production environments

[cooper Quintin]

Victor Kane wrote:
> First of all, am I right in supposing that your test environment
> crashed on your laptop as a single Drupal instance?
Yes you are.
>
> In other words, taken together the following:
>
> 1. Virtual server config
Yes, as a vhost entry in apache
> 2. MySql string in settings.php   (is that mysql or mysqli?)
Check
> 3. File system
CHeck
> 4. dns configurations (simply an entry in /etc/hosts on your laptop?)
Yup, thats how I did it
>
> and installed anywhere, the server crashes?
Yes, exactly. But also installed on the very same server where it
already works, it crashes the server as well.
>
> Victor
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:41 AM, cooper Quintin <cooperq at cooperq.com
> <mailto:cooperq at cooperq.com>> wrote:
>
>     Victor Kane wrote:
>     > I'm willing to help practically any Indymedia journalist :)
>     >
>     > Let's take it a step at a time and solve this.
>     >
>     > 1. What do you mean it "crashes the server".
>     What I mean by this is, about a minute or 2 after the first page
>     request
>     from the dev or testing branch, the server starts grinding to a halt.
>     MySQL queries become very slow and the system load shoots up
>     astronomically.  Apache crashes and the entire system becomes slow and
>     then unresponsive, requiring a hard reset.  I will have to get back to
>     you with the exact statistics after I have approval to run another
>     test.  (I can't just go about crashing our live server! ;)
>     >
>     > 2. Describe how you set up the system in more detail,
>     especially, how
>     > is the original setup, describe it in some detail.
>     I should note again that I am running all of these on one server (with
>     different databases for each and a seperate webroot for each, also to
>     ari: I have made sure that the settings.php files each have the
>     correct
>     url set as the base url, also we have a vanilla htaccess file with one
>     exception noted below.)  so the operating environment is exactly the
>     same for all 3, the only difference being that the test and
>     development
>     versions are checked out from the subversion repository and the live
>     version is not, (it is still just the non version controlled file
>     system.)   The original setup is drupal core 5.15 checked out from
>     CVS.
>     We have the memcached module installed and a few other modules (I can
>     post them if you think it is important.)  The server has 3.5 Gigs of
>     memory, and about 2 gigs are free during normal operation.
>      Additionally
>     we are currently using about 10% of our root partition's hard drive
>     space (40/400G).  We have about 8-9 established connections at any
>     given
>     time on port 80 (according to netstat -ntpa)
>     Here again are the stats for the server: Server OS: CentOS 5 Drupal
>     Version: 5.15 php 5.2.8 apache
>     2.2.3 mysql 5.0.45 memcached 1.2.5
>
>     I suspected at first that it may have something to do with the way the
>     server is configured so I tried running the test environment on my
>     laptop (with an exact snapshot of the code and database) and my laptop
>     crashed in the same spectacular manner as the server.
>
>     >
>     > Victor Kane
>     > http://awebfactory.com.ar
>     P.S. Here is the 1 line we have added to the .htaccess file:
>      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^secure\.adbusters.org
>     <http://adbusters.org>\orders\shoes$ [NC]
>        RewriteRule ^(.*)$
>     http://www.adbusters.org/category/culture_shop/ethical_alternatives/blackspot_shoes
>     [L,R=301
>     <http://www.adbusters.org/category/culture_shop/ethical_alternatives/blackspot_shoes%5BL,R=301>]
>
>     P.P.S  Whats the best way to get a list of all my installed
>     modules and
>     versions for you guys?
>
>     --
>     Cooper Quintin
>     Freelance Programmer, Indymedia Journalist
>     http://CooperQ.com
>     (510) 827-5382
>
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>


-- 
Cooper Quintin
Freelance Programmer, Indymedia Journalist
http://CooperQ.com
(510) 827-5382