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Acumen indexing is automated by a cron job scheduled under the "acumen" username, which runs a script in /home/acumen/bin called acumen.pl | Acumen indexing is automated by a cron job scheduled under the "acumen" username, which runs a script in /home/acumen/bin called acumen.pl | ||
| − | This script does the following things: | + | ==This script does the following things:== |
# Backs up the primary acumen database | # Backs up the primary acumen database | ||
# Switches out the index.php scripts in the primary web directory (/srv/www/htdocs/acumen-old/ ) so that the staging subdirectory becomes what is live online instead, and the staging database is the one referenced for delivery | # Switches out the index.php scripts in the primary web directory (/srv/www/htdocs/acumen-old/ ) so that the staging subdirectory becomes what is live online instead, and the staging database is the one referenced for delivery | ||
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It’s been working fine without modifications for almost a year now, and hasn’t needed any attention. | It’s been working fine without modifications for almost a year now, and hasn’t needed any attention. | ||
| − | What’s more likely to go wrong is that content will be mucked up that gets put into the web directories – and that has to be corrected. Sometimes that means correcting what’s in the database as well as the web directories, and then reindexing. You can always reindex by: | + | What’s more likely to go wrong is that content will be mucked up that gets put into the web directories – and that has to be corrected. Sometimes that means correcting what’s in the database as well as the web directories, and then reindexing. |
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| + | ==You can always reindex by:== | ||
# Change directories to /home/acumen/bin | # Change directories to /home/acumen/bin | ||
Latest revision as of 16:11, 5 July 2017
Acumen indexing is automated by a cron job scheduled under the "acumen" username, which runs a script in /home/acumen/bin called acumen.pl
This script does the following things:
- Backs up the primary acumen database
- Switches out the index.php scripts in the primary web directory (/srv/www/htdocs/acumen-old/ ) so that the staging subdirectory becomes what is live online instead, and the staging database is the one referenced for delivery
- Performs a solr index on the acumen database (java -Xms1g -Xmx2g -jar /home/acumen/acumen.jar acumen >> /home/acumen/acumen.log) – (NOTE: I recently raised the amount of RAM allotted in this call, so you shouldn’t have to modify it again unless the quantity of content grows a great deal before you switch systems.)
- Dumps copies of the primary tables out of the newly indexed database
- Re-switches out the index.php scripts so that now the acumen-old directory is again what is live online
- Pulls copies of the primary tables into the staging database
- Imports that data into the staging version of solr
- And removes older versions of the backed up databases and tables (you'll see these in /home/acumen/sql/ -- should you need older ones, look in /srv/backups/ ).
- It also logs what it’s doing. (You can see this in /home/acumen/acumen.log and acumen_cron.log)
It’s been working fine without modifications for almost a year now, and hasn’t needed any attention.
What’s more likely to go wrong is that content will be mucked up that gets put into the web directories – and that has to be corrected. Sometimes that means correcting what’s in the database as well as the web directories, and then reindexing.
You can always reindex by:
- Change directories to /home/acumen/bin
- As root, become the acumen user. Type in: `su acumen`
- Run the script acumen.pl
This uses a lot of CPU, so if possible, do this when few people are using the system.
