synchronizing two or more apache servers to support a single web site

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[hi2bez]

Hello everybody!
Thanks in advance for having someone like u to assist those in need!

here is my problem

I have developed a helpdesk system for my company and now i m looking forward to get it alive. the problem is what if the web server fail in whatsoever case. and i thought to have to apache web servers to run synchronously on different machines as redundent servers

I think this is something like clustering or mirroring. The thing is I can't do it or i don't know how to do this on apache web server.

Someone please help me
thanks a lot!

[jamie]

hi hi2bez,

welcome to webmasterworld!

we have used rsync in the past to keep two file structures in sync. it is a free *nix program and is relatively easy to configure.

it only copies changes (incremental) so you can schedule it to run often.

i have never looked at other solutions, rsync was always enough.

cheers