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{{warning|As any professional system administrator knows, proper server maintenance requires regular attention to very many sub-systems, not just WeBWorK. Faculty who run production WeBWorK servers are very strongly advised to either find a sysadmin who can help you, or to read up on system administration.}}
 
{{warning|As any professional system administrator knows, proper server maintenance requires regular attention to very many sub-systems, not just WeBWorK. Faculty who run production WeBWorK servers are very strongly advised to either find a sysadmin who can help you, or to read up on system administration.}}
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== Set up environment ==
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E.g., $WEBWORK_ROOT, path,
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learn to use webwork commandline scripts.
   
 
== Upgrading WeBWorK ==
 
== Upgrading WeBWorK ==
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== Rotate Logs ==
 
== Rotate Logs ==
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timing.log, apache logs
   
 
== Regularly clean out temporary files ==
 
== Regularly clean out temporary files ==
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== Archive old courses ==
 
== Archive old courses ==
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== Items to include in backups ==
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mysqldumps, courses/
   
 
== Recommended reading ==
 
== Recommended reading ==

Latest revision as of 20:02, 2 February 2012

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Recommended server maintenance tasks for typical WeBWorK servers. Please note that these server maintenance tasks are WeBWorK specific. That is, they are additional tasks a system administrator should consider doing because of running WeBWorK on the server.

Warning : As any professional system administrator knows, proper server maintenance requires regular attention to very many sub-systems, not just WeBWorK. Faculty who run production WeBWorK servers are very strongly advised to either find a sysadmin who can help you, or to read up on system administration.

Set up environment

E.g., $WEBWORK_ROOT, path, learn to use webwork commandline scripts.

Upgrading WeBWorK

See Upgrading WeBWorK.

Upgrading the NPL

See Upgrading_WeBWorK#Update_the_National_Problem_Library.

Rotate Logs

timing.log, apache logs

Regularly clean out temporary files

See Clean Out Temporary Files.

Archive old courses

Items to include in backups

mysqldumps, courses/

Recommended reading