Actually, you should be able to simply leave Apache alone running on port 80 and just point the one testing host to another Tomcat server running on port 8090 or whatever you want. Like that you will have 2 J2EE servers running, one with the production and one with the dev environment.
Kind Regards, Nitai On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Halo Maps <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Because this site is currently live I am looking to install Apache on a >> different port (81) and connect to Open BD so that I can fully test the >> functionality I need without interfering with the operation of the >> existing >> IIS7 on port 80. > > Interesting question. > > This isn't the answer you're probably looking for, but personally I wouldn't > attempt this even if it's possible. I think you're much better off doing > this on another server so you can mess with configuration without running > the risk of interrupting service on your production box. > > That being said, and I've never tried this so it's certainly a "attempt at > your own risk" situation, in theory it seems to me that if you have OpenBD > running on Tomcat, for example, depending on how you have things configured > I don't see why IIS would know or care that Apache was *also* talking to > OpenBD and vice-versa. You could probably even have IIS use one connection > method to Tomcat and Apache use another if you wanted. > > But again, I'd try all this out on another box. Even a VM just for testing > purposes would be well worth the effort to set up, because then you can > experiment freely without bringing your production box down. > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- > Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List > http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon > online manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ > > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/razunahq -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon online manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
