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URZ Workshop „Creating websites with TUCAL“
Web server architecture
URZ Workshop „Creating websites with TUCAL“ 

Web server architecture

web server infrastructure
Layer 4 Switch
reliability, load balancing
Web server
Linux, Apache, PHP, PHP-based layout system TUCAL
  • www.tu-chemnitz.de – central web sites, data in /afs/tu-chemnitz.de/www/root
  • www-user.tu-chemnitz.de – personal homepages of users, data in HOME/public_html
AFS server
data storage = web space: Access from all URZ computers via file system
Database server
MySQL/PostgreSQL for PHP applications
Authoring server
access via WFM or also via SSH, SCP, SFTP