Complete RT on Solaris

RT Users
1

I understood from the mailing list that RT runs fine on
Solaris…

is it possible to have all of the components (including
MySQL) running on one and the same Solaris host?

Thanks,

Patrick De Muynck
Dreamtech Information Systems, Athens/Greece

2

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing. As I understand it, the greater
challenge is running the various components of RT on different
hosts, although I haven’t gone that direction.

I actually chose a server for RT to live on because that server
already had mysql and apache running on it.

Matt Disney

Patrick De Muynck writes:

3

We have been running RT2, MySQL, and Apache on a solaris 8 host without
any problems.

Patrick De Muynck wrote:

I understood from the mailing list that RT runs fine on
Solaris…

is it possible to have all of the components (including
MySQL) running on one and the same Solaris host?

Thanks,

Patrick De Muynck
Dreamtech Information Systems, Athens/Greece

Brian Stevenson - brians@plaza.ds.adp.com
ADP Dealer Services

4

Matt Disney wrote:

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing. As I understand it, the greater
challenge is running the various components of RT on different
hosts, although I haven’t gone that direction.

Due to the extreme memory bloat of RT2, I had to move the webserver to a
seperate host - this hasn’t been a problem whatsoever.

Lazy bastard steps for moving RT webserver: (hopefully this will be handy
for people who need multiple webservers, or something…)

  • Compile everything on new webserver - perl, apache, mod_perl, whatever
    else cranks your dial - I use mod_ssl because I’m paranoid.
  • Do a make fixdeps and then install the stubborn ones by hand.
  • Copy your entire rt tree onto new webserver
  • Modify config.pm to use the old host as the mysql host
  • Set up mysql to allow access from new webserver… this is a
    bitch. You’ll enjoy this. Test it by telnetting to the mysql host on
    port
    3306.
  • Set up the new apache config file to use an rt virtual host.

That’s it.

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Unix Systems Administrator | aren’t going according to plan
| is that there never was a plan
University of Technology, Sydney | in the first place.