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Setup mount point between servers

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This part only applies to a multi-server installation.

On master server

Install NFS service:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server

Edit exports file:

sudo nano /etc/exports

Define rights for slave servers (imagine slave1 is is identified by 192.168.1.2 and slave 2 by 192.168.1.3):

/var/www/html/shared/var/eac 192.168.1.2(rw,sync,no_subtree_check) 192.168.1.3(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

On slaves

Install NFS client:

sudo apt install nfs-common

Create mount point (192.168.1.1 is the main server):

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/eac
sudo mount 192.168.1.1:/var/www/html/shared/var/eac /mnt/eac

Mount on server startup:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

192.168.1.1:/var/www/html/shared/var/eac /mnt/eac nfs defaults 0 0