Multiple servers sharing NFS httpd.conf file?

Hi,

I've got a server setup with a hardware balancer. There are 5 nodes
and a common/shared nfs mount. I've sym linked each nodes apache
"conf" directory to the shared NFS mount. I'm just trying to keep
maintenance down. Does this sound OK to do? If so, how do I set the
ServerName for each node, or do I need to even do that?

Thanks!

Matt

goodieboy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a server setup with a hardware balancer. There are 5 nodes
> and a common/shared nfs mount. I've sym linked each nodes apache
> "conf" directory to the shared NFS mount. I'm just trying to keep
> maintenance down. Does this sound OK to do? If so, how do I set the
> ServerName for each node, or do I need to even do that?
>

I have a similar situation and decided to NOT symlink all my web servers
to an NFS config directory.
1) If my NFS server is down for maintenance, I can still use files in
the local config directory for my "down for maintenance" web server config.
2) This allows me to use the same source for my production systems and
development systems and still play with the config on the dev box
without affecting production.
3) I keep my config source files on an NFS volume under SCCS. I use
designated tokens in the config for values that change for each server.
I use a script to load a NFS directory with the current files under
SCCS and use another script that copies those files to the local apache
config directory and replaces the tokens with appropriate values (e.g.,
hostname, IP addresses). This script is on the NFS volume and symlinked
from my apache top level directory.

HTH,
Jim