Joshua wrote: > It's relatively trivial if you do it in the simplest way: > Configure/compile/install with different --prefix's each time (meaning > one instance lives entirely under /usr/local/apache2a, another under > /usr/local/apache2b, etc). Then the only thing you need to do is > adjust the Listen directive to tell the correct IP-address/port.
To each his own. Multiple compile and install doesn't seem like a simple way to me. What we do at my job is one installation of the software, say in /opt/httpd-2.2.4. The in /opt/data we make a separate directory for each instance. Like /opt/data/foo1, /opt/data/foo2 where foo1.my.company and foo2.my.company are virtual hosts set up via ifconfig on redhat. In /opt/data/whatever there's an apache directory, a php directory, a mysql directory, etc. The php directory is for setting PHPRC so you can have different php.ini files for the various installations. The apache directory has a link "base" which points to /opt/httpd-2.2.4 (or whatever install directory). Links like base/bin, base/lib, base/icons, etc. point to directories in /opt/httpd-2.2.4 which can safely be shared. The htdocs, conf, cgi-bin and logs subdirectories are not links. The httpd.conf is changed so DocRoot and other variables point to the instance directory rather than the software installation directory. We use Named Virtual Hosts for the actual host setup. That's probably not absolutely necessary, but it makes it easy if we decide to run another name on the same IP later or put the HTTP and HTTPS sides in different docroots. In /etc/init.d we have a script which loops through the host names and starts each one. We set global variables to plug into the startup command so that the right files are picked up for each instance. It probably sounds a little complicated, but the brilliance of it is that if you install a new version of apache you may be able to just change the base pointer and go if the software doesn't change very much. And no compilation is required if you want to make a new instance. Sheryl --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
