Need a simple guide for setting up a basic two server failover Failover, High Availability, mirror, eh. Hopefully I used the correct terminology for what I want here. I have your basic cable internet connection with a standard 54g Netgear wireless router/access point, and I'm running a test server on it (Gutsy Gibbon Perfect Server). What I'd like is a second web server that takes over if the first server goes down (I think that's called failover?). Of course, I love all the fantastic HOWTOs that you guys have on the site, but there doesn't seem to be one for what I'm trying to do. I don't need a load balancer, and setting up MYSQL replication doesn't seem to be the entire answer. The HA Apache Cluster seems too much for my needs right now. I did do the rsync mirroring but that only mirrors the /var/www directory (and the mirror wouldn't take over if the first server went down). The closest thing I saw on the forums was high availability with two servers but even that person was trying to do load balancing and MYSQL replication. Can you guys steer me to a good simple solution?
Combine these tutorials: http://www.howtoforge.com/high-availability-load-balancer-haproxy-heartbeat-debian-etch http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql5_master_master_replication_debian_etch http://www.howtoforge.com/logresolvemerge.pl_merge_apache_access_logs That's what HowtoForge is currently running on.
