Walking the site / Propagating the DB

rshank · Post by **rshank** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 4:48 pm

Hi All,
I have a site hosted on a web farm. Is it possible to do the walk on a separate box, then propagate the DB to the servers rather than indexing on every server on the webfarm.

On a related note - can I walk a site - abstracting out the server name - e.g. I want to walk the site on my machine "localhost", then propagate it to production - www. How do I do that ?

Thanks

Post by **mark** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 5:01 pm

Yes, the database can be propagated so long as all machines in the farm are the same architecture with the same OS.

I don't really see any reason not to just index www directly, but
you could edit the urls before going to production. Something like:
texis -s -d YOURDB "update html set Url='www/'+Url-'localhost/'"
texis -s -d YOURDB "update refs set Url='www/'+Url-'localhost/',Ref='www/'+Ref-'localhost/'"