compatibility with local sites in /var/www

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Hello, I find it a good idea and the concept of s… It is easy to use and understand. does anyone know if it is compatible with sites hosted locally in /var/www? and with mariadb databases? I had installed a few small sites for local testing with database connection, without having made any major changes to the computer have disappeared. Thank you

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I understand you want to synchronize web pages (HTML files, etc.) between different hosts? That should be possible with Syncthing, just need to find a sane model how the Syncthing process gets access to the filed. Probably add the user who is supposed to run the Synchting service to the www-data group or similar.

Syncing databases with Synchting is probably a terrible idea, at least while the MariaDB server is running on either side. You could automate taking down the DB server, copying the underlying files to a Syncthing share, and restarting the server, via a regularly running script, if short downtimes are acceptable. Do the same (opposite copy direction) on the receiving end(s).

But I think there are better ways to operate replicated SQL databases.

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Hello André. Thank you for your time. I don’t think I have explained myself clearly. I will do it by points:

  • I installed locally the LAMP
  • I created some files that I put in /var/www/html
  • I created a database that I accessed with the files that I had in /var/www/html.
  • I used the above for a long time and it worked fine.
  • A few months ago I installed Syncthing
  • Now in the /var/www/html folder I only see a generic html file and I have no database.

Since the last time I accessed the local site and now that I have detected it the most important change has been to install Syncthing

I have not detected it at the same time due to changes in the work routine that allowed me to test on a remote server.

I do not want to synchronize the data of that folder /var/www/html, only that they work without incompatibilities between them and if possible to recover the previous configuration of both the apache server and the database.

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Syncthing has nothing to do with Apache / LAMP or /var/www whatsoever. It uses its own completely independent web server for its interface.

I think your connection between the folder being empty and installing Syncthing is a red herring, especially if you didn’t set up Syncthing to sync that path at all.

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