I have made a modification to apachectl shipped with 2.0 that creates the path to the configuration file dynamically based on the location of apachectl. Then I make symbolic links to apachectl from the bin directory of each instance. That bin directory contains only the symbolic link and an envvars file specific to that instance so I can set environment parameters per-instance. I also made some other changes that may not be to everybody's liking. If anyone is interested, I'll be happy to mail it. -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:13 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Multiple apache instances On 8/16/05, Spike Burkhardt <burkhardt.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Joshua & all, > > When I specified the configuration file the instance I wanted to > kill still didn't stop. In fact, it stopped the other instance! > Also, at least on my box, '-k' isn't a valid option. I didn't notice you were using such an old version. The command I quoted works in 2.x. For your version, you need to use the other technique I mentioned (killing the process listed in the pid file). If you open up apachectl in an editor, you'll note that this is exactly what it is doing. But it has a hard-coded path to the config file for your first server. You could easily edit apachectl to make a "stop2" option which would get the pid from the appropriate file for the second server. This is, by the way, documented at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/stopping.html Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx