webclient (was: Re: [webteam] Stats of jabber.org)

[Sander Devrieze]

2007/7/17, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org>:
<snip>
> See other messages in the thread. In part, we have some deployment
> challenges at jabber.org because of how we have spread our services
> across machines.
>
> A person could register at the website, but then we would need to sync
> the Drupal user database on apollo with the ejabberd user database on
> athena. And please remember that the ejabberd user database has over
> 250,000 users in it. Plus we need to do this securely. And naturally
> people want their account to appear immediately so they can log into the
> IM service right away -- which makes it hard to do things like rsync
> every 5 minutes.

Some way how it can be solved (warning: just some thought, it might be
a bad idea!):
1) Put the website on a new domain, e.g. jabber.im
2) Forward HTTP traffic from jabber.org to jabber.im (or point to the
same website, like coccinella.im and thecoccinella.org)
3) Add the new domain jabber.im to the ejabberd deployment
4) Configure ejabberd so that it uses the Mysql database on apollo for
this domain

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.