Here's the previous set-up: server 1 - runs a website and a few webapps on Tomcat. server 2 - hosts a mySQL DB using InnoDB tables. The webapps on server 1 connect to the DB on server 2 using JDBC.
This could be Networking or Linux, so let me know if I misposted. In learning to program PHP and MySQL I started by installing servers for such on my only available machine, a Windows 98SE box. I now ...