In the process of establishing a mirror of eGroupware's site http://www.egroupware.org there will be some potentially useful experience gathered which will be record here. The mirror that was developed using these instructions can be found under http://si.egroupware.org .

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How to establish a mirror of the eGroupware's site

In the sequel we use the following terminology:

original server means the server that is mirrored (www.egroupware.org).
mirror server means the server that mirrors the original server. Vaguely, a copy of original server is established at the mirror server.

The process of mirroring can be briefly split into the following steps:

1. Configuring the mirror server. It's configuration should match as close as possible the configuration on the original server.
2. Copying the data from the original server. The eGroupWare's PHP source files and the eGroupWare's database should be copied from the original server to the mirror server. This should be done periodically.
3. Patching the copy. Due to some differences between the original server and it's mirror, some patching must take place.

To create the mirror of www.egroupware.org, one should go through the following steps:

1. Configuring the mirror server
2. Creating the usernames
3. Obtaining a copy of eGroupware's source
4. Obtaining a copy of eGroupware's data
5. Patching the database's data
6. Making it all work together
7. Automatic synchronisation
8. Language of the mirror

In the process of establishing a mirror of eGroupware's site http://www.egroupware.org there will be some potentially useful experience gathered which will be record here. The mirror that was developed using these instructions can be found under http://si.egroupware.org .

Drago

How to establish a mirror of the eGroupware's site

In the sequel we use the following terminology:

original server means the server that is mirrored (www.egroupware.org).
mirror server means the server that mirrors the original server. Vaguely, a copy of original server is established at the mirror server.

The process of mirroring can be briefly split into the following steps:

1. Configuring the mirror server. It's configuration should match as close as possible the configuration on the original server.
2. Copying the data from the original server. The eGroupWare's PHP source files and the eGroupWare's database should be copied from the original server to the mirror server. This should be done periodically.
3. Patching the copy. Due to some differences between the original server and it's mirror, some patching must take place.

To create the mirror of www.egroupware.org, one should go through the following steps:

1. Configuring the mirror server
2. Creating the usernames
3. Obtaining a copy of eGroupware's source
4. Obtaining a copy of eGroupware's data
5. Patching the database's data
6. Making it all work together
7. Automatic synchronisation
8. Language of the mirror