Put the /db on a separate server

[Eric Zhang <yu...@ualberta.ca>]

Hi:
 I am using Xindice 1.1.3. Currently, the xindice installs the /db under
tomcat's webapp dir. However, we are wondering whether we can have two
machines. One is application server, which is running the tomcat, and
the other machine is the database server, which will be running the
xindice and holds all the data. We want to write jsp/servlet on the
application server, to retrieve data from the xindice on the database
server. How should I configure.

  Thanks.

-- 
Yue(Eric) Zhang
Database Analyst/DBA, TAPoR Project
Arts Department, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada

Re: Put the /db on a separate server

[Neil Cook <nc...@acm.org>]

Run a servlet container on both machines. Configure the front-end 
machine as your application server and the back-end machine with Xindice 
as your back-end server.

Xindice has documentation on how to install it under a servlet 
container. The most important point, I believe, is to change server.xml 
to place the database somewhere other than under the Xindice servlet, so 
that a re-installation will not destroy your database. 
(/xindice/root-collection/@dbroot).

/Neil

Eric Zhang wrote:

> Hi:
>  I am using Xindice 1.1.3. Currently, the xindice installs the /db under
> tomcat's webapp dir. However, we are wondering whether we can have two
> machines. One is application server, which is running the tomcat, and
> the other machine is the database server, which will be running the
> xindice and holds all the data. We want to write jsp/servlet on the
> application server, to retrieve data from the xindice on the database
> server. How should I configure.
> 
>   Thanks.
>