Hello, PL>One other tip... write a small script (or modify apachectl) to start PL>apache with a port number matched to your unix UID. This keeps PL>developers from using clashing port numbers. PL> PL> httpd -c "Port $UID" -c "Listen $UID"
At Tellme we find it easiest to run multiple Apaches, one per developer. We share the same base Perl and Perl modules; we develop modules with Makefile.PL's and use "use blib" in our included personal httpd.pl's to get to our own versions of library code. We run our Apaches on a shared box, because our production infrastructure is pretty different from a userland Linux box. We just run on multiple ports, by default we use our telephone extensions for the port number--so we don't have any conflicts between users. If there are problems with load, lower MinServers/MaxServers/StartServers/MaxClients. The individual configs and logs go into our home directories, the only caveat for our setup is that our homedirs are mounted over NFS so we have to explicitly specify a Lockfile on local disk. We usually go one up on Paul's suggestion and just put a personal copy of apachectl into our personal bin directories (perhaps renamed "myapache") and just change some paths and add a -f when running Apache to make it find the right config file. We find that this works great for development, and lets us still depend on the same Perl/Apache builds we use on production. Humbly, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Ho http://www.tellme.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 650-930-9062 Tellme Networks, Inc. 1-800-555-TELL Fax 650-930-9101 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
