Author: poeml Date: 2009-02-04 08:31:05 -0700 (Wed, 04 Feb 2009) New Revision: 6371 Modified: trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/INSTALL Log: work on the install documentation Modified: trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/INSTALL =================================================================== --- trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/INSTALL 2009-02-04 15:27:14 UTC (rev 6370) +++ trunk/tools/download-redirector-v2/INSTALL 2009-02-04 15:31:05 UTC (rev 6371) _at_@ -237,50 +237,49 @@ - create a DNS alias for your web host, if needed - - configure the database adapter (mod_dbd) and mod_mirrorbrain. Put this - configuration in server-wide context. Make the file chmod 0640, owned - root:root because it will contain the database password. + - configure the database adapter (mod_dbd), resp. its connection pool. + Put the configuration into server-wide context. + Config example:: + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ + # for prefork, this configuration is inactive. prefork simply uses 1 + # connection per child. + <IfModule !prefork.c> + DBDMin 0 + DBDMax 32 + DBDKeep 4 + DBDExptime 10 + </IfModule> + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Config example:: + - configure the database driver. + Put this configuration into server-wide OR vhost context. Make the file + chmod 0640, owned root:root because it will contain the database password. + Config example:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # for MySQL: - <IfModule mod_dbd.c> - DBDriver mysql - # reconnect=0 is needed with the mysql adapter. It means that connections - # should not be "reanimated", because prepared statements would be lost anyway, - # so dead connections should rather be invalidated and new ones made. - DBDParams "host=localhost, user=wwwrun, pass=12345, dbname=mirrorbrain, reconnect=0" - # # threaded MPMs only. prefork will have use db connection per process - <IfModule !prefork.c> - # - DBDMin 0 - DBDMax 32 - DBDKeep 4 - DBDExptime 10 - </IfModule> - </IfModule> + DBDriver mysql + # reconnect=0 is needed with the mysql adapter. It means that connections + # should not be "reanimated", because prepared statements would be lost anyway, + # so dead connections should rather be invalidated and new ones made. + DBDParams "host=localhost, user=wwwrun, pass=12345, dbname=mirrorbrain, reconnect=0" + # # threaded MPMs only. prefork will have use db connection per process # or, for PostgreSQL: - <IfModule mod_dbd.c> - DBDriver pgsql - DBDParams "host=localhost, user=wwwrun, pass=12345, dbname=mirrorbrain" - <IfModule !prefork.c> - # - DBDMin 0 - DBDMax 32 - DBDKeep 4 - DBDExptime 10 - </IfModule> - </IfModule> + DBDriver pgsql + # note that the connection string (which is passed straight through to + # PGconnectdb in this case) looks slightly different - pass vs. password + DBDParams "host=localhost user=mb password=12345 dbname=mirrorbrain connect_timeout=15" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - create a vhost for it (e.g. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/go-oo.zrkadlo.org.conf) - - create a vhost for it (e.g. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/go-oo.mirrorbrain.org.conf) + - configure mod_mirrorbrain. + You probably want to reate a vhost (e.g. + /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/go-oo.mirrorbrain.org.conf) and add the MirrorBrain + configuration like shown here: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <VirtualHost your.host.name:80> _at_@ -298,9 +297,12 @@ MirrorBrainDebug Off FormGET On MirrorBrainHandleHEADRequestLocally Off - MirrorBrainMinSize 0 + MirrorBrainMinSize 2048 MirrorBrainHandleDirectoryIndexLocally On - + MirrorBrainExcludeUserAgent rpm/4.4.2 + MirrorBrainExcludeUserAgent *APT-HTTP* + MirrorBrainExcludeMimeType application/pgp-keys + Options FollowSymLinks Indexes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny _at_@ -315,10 +317,43 @@ rcapache2 restart + - mirror surveillance: + put this into /etc/crontab: + -* * * * * root /usr/bin/mirrorprobe -t 20 &>/dev/null + likewise, configure scanning: + 44 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * mirrorbrain mb scan -j 3 -a + - TODO: describe how to test that the install was successful + (When testing, consider any excludes that you configured, and which may + confuse you.) + - TODO: describe decent logging setup + + + - further things that you might want to configure: + - mod_autoindex_mb, a replacement for the standard module mod_autoindex: + a2dismod autoindex + a2enmod autoindex_mb + Add IndexOptions Metalink Mirrorlist + (or IndexOptions +Metalink +Mirrorlist, depending on your config) + + - add a link to a CSS stylesheet for mirror lists: + MirrorBrainMirrorlistStylesheet "http://static.opensuse.org/css/mirrorbrain.css" + and for the autoindex: + IndexStyleSheet "http://static.opensuse.org/css/mirrorbrain.css" + + - prepare the metalink hashes. First, add some configuration: + MirrorBrainMetalinkPublisher "openSUSE" http://download.opensuse.org + MirrorBrainMetalinkHashesPathPrefix /var/lib/apache2/metalink-hashes/ppc + install the "metalink" tool from http://metamirrors.nl/metalinks_project + (openSUSE package called metalink, http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/) + create the actual hashes: + metalink-hasher update -t /var/lib/apache2/metalink-hashes/ppc/srv/ftp/pub/opensuse/ppc -b /srv/ftp/pub/opensuse/ppc /srv/ftp/pub/opensuse/ppc + add the hashing command to /etc/crontab to be run every few hours. + + +++ That's how far the instructions go. I hope they are useful. 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