Creating Mirrored/Replicated front-end servers

[OllyL]

Hi There,

 

I have a question. I'm running a simple server stack at the moment for a Prestashop with:

 

Load Balancer Server

|_Front-End Web Server

   |_Database Server

 

and I'm looking to expand it with a second web server. The problem I have is that with replication setup between the web servers I start recieving a lot of "Smarty Cache" errors on the second server because the cache folder is being shadowed over from the first web server and screwing up the second one.

 

My question is - will simply excluding the /cache folder from the replication job fix this problem or are there any other "gotchas" that I should be aware of?

 

Cheers,

 

Olly

[OllyL]

For anyone reading this, just excluding the cache folders has worked fine for us so far and no problems have been reported.

 

We run our two webservers behind a load balancer but then we have a seperate domain for admin which points directly at the primary web server (the one which is replicated to the others). This means that all images etc. uploaded through admin are replicated correctly to the other webs servers.

 

Admin complains about being on the wrong domain but it seems to work fine regardless.

[fatyas]

Hi OllyL,

 

I am trying to do a similar setup. How do you setup the second domain? I guess you do a clean install on a new server, but then which files/database fields do you have to change to get to your setup (i.e. separate domain for admin pointing directly to primary web server)?

 

it would be great if you could help me.