Sitemap Generation on a Clustered forum.

[ahira]

My forum is setup on a clustered server environmentof 2 servers and we are having an usual problem. The problem is that the scheduled task runs at 2am but its random on which server the sitemap files are written to. Does anyone have any ideas on how this issue can be handled?

[briansol]

yeah, this is a tough one to work around. The ideal solution is to have a 3rd "Static" server for things like this.

The other option is to code something that runs X min after your cron job + time it takes to run the sitemap (make sure there's plenty of time). a simple mirror copy and datecheck script is all that really needs to be done.

pseducode:
read sitemap_index.xml.gz
get datelastmodified
if getdate() = datelastmodified {
//this is the good server, mirror to the other
mv -r /vbseo_sitemap/data/* /10.1.x.x/home/public_html/site/vbseo_sitemap/data/

}

[ahira]

Thanks I didn't think of that. That looks like just what I need to setup.