On Wed, 17 May 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> I am curious as to why you don't care for 20 different apaches? If you use
> a mod_proxy front-end, it should be relatively easy to manage 20 different
> apache's on the backend, especially if you use variables to start them
> up. There is another command line parameter that can be used to trigger
> different code in the same conf file (so that they start on different ports
> for example)...
>
> In addition, a solid part of testing mod_perl modules consists of running
> in single process mode (ala -x parameter)) -- which is invaluable for
> finding cached code conflicts.. You won't be able to do this if everyone is
> using the same apache.
>
> BTW, this would be a good addition to the guide -- how to manage a mod_perl
> development environment with more than 1 developer (eg 20 in your case)
Both questions are already answered in the guide:
Kees' original:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/modules.html#Apache_PerlVINC_set_a_differe
Gunter's suggestion:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/control.html#Starting_a_Personal_Server_for_E
>
> Later,
> Gunther
>
> At 08:35 AM 5/17/00 +0100, Kees Vonk 7249 24549 wrote:
> >I have the requirement to set up a number of testing
> >environments on the same machine, in order to prevent having
> >to run 20 copies of apache I want to try to do this using
> >virtual hosts. The problem I am running into is that it is
> >very likely that there will be different copies of the same
> >in-house modules in the different environments. With the
> >modules being cached in memory this causes some problems.
> >
> >The only way I can think of is to have the different modules
> >in different packages, however this would mean I would have
> >to change the scripts and modules every time they are
> >deployed in order to make them match the environment.
> >
> >I have a environment variable with a unique environment name
> >under every virtual host, so I wondered if I could do
> >something like:
> >
> >script: use My::$ENV{ENVNAME}::Module;
> >
> >module: package My::$ENV{ENVNAME}::Module;
> >
> >
> >Could anyone tell me if this is possible in any way as I
> >cannot get it to work, or if there is another way of
> >achieving this.
> >
> >
> >Kees
>
> __________________________________________________
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