Posted by burt.lo on April 12, 2011 at 10:31pm
So, i'm trying a hack, but need some input.
Rather than serve all my file attachments (all mp3s) from my primary host, I want to "archive" some to a slower machine, thus saving space for more current content on my primary host.
I just tried changing the files.filepath to a full URL value pointing to my archive host, but displaying the node shows the new path appended to my default public files path.
Any suggestions?
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You can see the current
You can see the current result here: http://higherviews.info/vmr/content/ebay-radio-show-397-segment-9-powers...
That results in a path for the file attachment of: http://higherviews.info/vmr/sites/default/files/http://archive.voicemark...
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I'd use the OS facilities and
I'd use the OS facilities and cross mount directories. Export from the slow host, mount on the fast host somewhere into the sites/default/files hierarchy.
In /etc/exports of the slow server add something like: (note that IP address restricts hosts which can mount)
/opt 172.18.64.0/255.255.248.0(rw,async)
Run the command "exportfs -a" as root.
In /etc/fstab of the main server add something like:
172.16.117.19:/opt /var/www/html/sites/default/files/slowfiles nfs rw,bg,hard,nosuid,intr 0 0
Run the command "mount -a" as root and verify you can read and write files as the httpd/www/apache user account, whichever applies.
HTH
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Christoph Weber