The remaining problem (MARC record zip archives not working) is not a tomcat-related problem: at least, not necessarily. It doesn't work on the live site at the moment either. A's fixing it.

SO! We have the technology, we can rebuild it. Holidays are coming up and we want time for these changes to bed in while people are still in the office. We're going ahead with the update right now.

The plan:

No new material to be published on sites until next Tuesday, 31/8/04.

Tuesday 24/8:

M to ensure office copy of TC is in good working order.
M Final page updates to site from jserv-compatible pages.
T to backup of all jserv-compatible site pages on a CD labelled appropriately.
T to update all sites to be TC compliant, breaking jserv where unavoidable.
M & T Deploy sites on local TC, redirect office DNS to use it and test all pages.

Wednesday 25/8:
M Revised pages to w3.
M Switch w3 to TC.
T Test all pages on w3.
M Amend office DNS to direct all live site requests direct to w3.
M,T,A Watch for maints/other problems.

Monday 30/8:
Bank holiday

Tuesday 31/8:
M All being well, switch w1 to TC with new pages.
M Cluster update.
M Remove w3 DNS hack.
T Test all pages.
M, T Amend expect publishing scripts as required.
M, T Test page updates.
All Resume regular site update schedule

To integrate when available:

A revising marc_download page to fix zip archives

T
- posted by Tim Bruce @ 4:14 PM