How to create distributed/mirrored dynamic scripting website (Step - 1 File synchronization)

This tutorial introduce a effortless way to build a distributed dynamic scripting website between Linux servers in two different zone.

To build up a dynamic website mirror for different zone/region/country without using Content Delivery Network, you should consider:

1. File Synchronization
2. Database Synchronization
3. Security
4. Region Detection And Redirection

Step one: File Synchronization
We will use rsync for file synchronization

rsync --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --perms --links --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" --exclude "config.php"  /var/www/path/* DESTINATION:/var/www/path/

It is recommended to create a batch file & run this command every 5 minutes, you may need to detect if rsync is already running, checkout here to find out how to detect if a process is already running. You may have muptiple hosts, yet the principle should be the same.

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