On Wed, 2006-13-12 at 17:30 +0100, Paul Fee wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Guy Hulbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<snip> > > > > Why do they need more than one ? <snip> > Hi Guy, > > The main motivation is that I don't want to dictate install location to > people that are using > my builds of httpd. But you still have to dictate the platform: CPU, OS and OS version. /usr/local, /opt, or /srv are standard places to add software. > > Secondly, I have multiple people testing httpd and my module. I want to > increase machine utilisation > and allow multiple installations on one box. It may be possible to arrange > that they share a common > httpd but ideally each installation would be self contained. > For example different httpd versions may be built with different options. Debian builds almost all the modules dynamically loadable. You could still run multiple copies with different modules loaded. > > The only conflicting resource that different instances must avoid contention > over should be the TCP port > that httpd listens on. Exactly. Apache has a built-in mechanism (virtual hosts) to multiplex this resource. If you enable htaccess (not recommended -- see apache.org -- but the issue is worse for your scenario) then different features can be enabled by the end users ... or you can use 'include' and let them configure things themselves. > > Another scenario would be a httpd server in active service and the need to > install a new version > (in a different directory) for testing without removing the active version. > It would be good if > httpd had the option to be built without advanced knowledge of its install > location. Other people responded with generic solutions to this as I expected they might. > > Without eliminating absolute paths, I find myself heading down the path of OS > visualisation, which > to me seems very heavy weight to install multiple instances of one > application. Apache is a pretty heavy application. Xen still requires multiple IP addresses but RAM and DISK are *cheap* and modern CPUs are *fast*. > > Thanks, > Paul -- --gh
