Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/maintenance.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/maintenance.xml,v diff -u -r1.5.2.5 -r1.5.2.6 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/maintenance.xml 15 Dec 2003 14:29:16 -0000 1.5.2.5 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/install-guide/maintenance.xml 2 Feb 2004 18:07:48 -0000 1.5.2.6 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ %myvars; ]> - Hosting Web Sites + Operating an OpenACS Web Site By Joel Aufrecht @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Maintenance tasks, optional software, and alternate configurations for AOLserver. - Keep AOLserver Alive + Starting and Stopping an OpenACS instance. - Assuming AOLserver started cleanly in the previous step, we'll set it up so that it's always running, and automatically restarts whenever it dies or is stopped. This step is strongly recommended, even for development sites, because it makes install and maintenance much simpler. - + The simplest way to start and stop and OpenACS site is to run the startup shell script provided, /var/lib/aolserver/service0/etc/daemontools/run. This runs as a regular task, and logs to the logfile. To stop the site, kill the script. + A more stable way to run OpenACS is with a "keepalive" mechanism of some sort, so that whenever the server halts or is stopped for a reset, it restarts automatically. This is recommended for development and production servers. The Reference Platform uses Daemontools to control AOLserver. A simpler method, using init, is here.