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| Revised | : | January 6, 2006 (mc) |
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HOWTO: Updating Across a Multiple Server ILLiad Installation
January 6, 2006
SUMMARY
Often ILLiad will be installed across multiple servers. Such an installation requires a SQL Server, a Web Server, and a Share Server. Note that these may be installed across two server machines, usually a SQL Server and a Web/Share server, or across three servers, each with it's own component.
To update the ILLiad server(s) to a new released version, perform the following steps:
- Run the ILLiad AutoUpdater (ILLiadUpdate.exe) from the Web Server. Note that in a normal ILLiad Server Installation, this file will be located in the Admin folder within the ILLiad share (X:\illiad\Admin\ ).
All of the directories should point to the local machine except for the ILLiad Backup Directory. That folder should be the local path from the perspective of the SQL Server. For example if you are backing up your database to the E drive on the SQL Server, the ILLiad Backup Directory should be e:\illiad\backup\ regardless of the E drive on the Web/Share server. You would not want to map a drive to the SQL server from the Web/Share server for that folder, because the backup script runs on the SQL Server and executes from its perspective.
- The BDE (Borland Database Engine) points any database updates made by the AutoUpdater to the ILLData database on the SQL Server machine. Note that if the BDE does not exist on the web server, or if it is configured improperly, the web pages themselves will not function.
- The AutoUpdater will update the Database via the BDE, and the ILLiad share files locally on the web server.
- After the update, copy the entire ILLiad share (or selected updated files) to the File Share Server if your ILLiad share is on another machine.
