[Using Sakai] Recommended Windows platform for serving up Sakai?

[Dave Ross]

We are currently running 2.4.x in a 100% Windows Server 2003 32bit
environment - but soon moving to a 2.5.x 100% Windows Server 2008 64bit
Environment.

Some things to consider:

- There needs to be domain-based authentication between the app servers and
the "file server" (depending on what you use on the backend to store files).
To do this properly, the Tomcat service should be run as a domain user who
has privileges to the share where your content hosting files are.

- MySQL only recently started supporting 64 bit windows - this is what held
off our move for a while. This will allow our database server to utilize a
lot more RAM.

For us, the reason we are on Windows is because it's the standard server OS
in our organization.


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:

> I've been running a Windows Server 2008 (Enterprise) as a QA at
> Michigan (http://qa6-us.sakaiproject.org). I don't think it's a very
> active QA, but it wasn't very hard to setup and I don't have to do
> much work to keep it running. I'm not sure the advantages of setting
> it up in production under Windows unless you wanted to try to
> integrate it with some .NET applications directly or just had more
> local windows administrative expertise/support. With sakai you're
> basically just running tomcat and either proxying it from a webserver
> (IIS/Apache) or running tomcat solo directly. so the OS shouldn't
> matter that much anyway, just so long as it has a sun jvm.
> (solaris/osx/linux/windows)
>
> Also, sakai doesn't officially support mssql, so you'd have to still
> run oracle or mysql somewhere.
>
> Many people do run it as a trial/demo under Windows though. As a
> production I'd probably use a server (2003 or 2008) machine.
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:44 PM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com>
> wrote:
> > So far all our Sakai installs are on Linux, but it compiles under
> > Windows as well, so...
> >
> > Which version of window server is Sakai 2.5.x / 2.6.x "certified"
> > (recommended) to run on?  2003, 2008,
> > standard and/or Enterprise?
> >
> > If you have success stories and/or horror stories for any particular
> > Windows platform, we're all ears. :)
> >
> > --
> > will trillich
> > "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are
> > heading." -- Lao Tzu
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