Hello, I have checked all the documentation and searched the web for hours, but I can't seem to find the solution to my problem. I'm sure it's some thing simple, but I just can't seem to get past this hurdle. I am trying to run multiple instances of apache2 on my box to facilitate porting plain perl scripts to mod_perl scipts. I am running on SuSE Linux 9.2. I have copied most of the configuration scripts to an separate directory. Then I modified the listen directive to 8080 and added a pidfile directive to point to a new location. I also changed the user & group directive since the SuSE manual said that each instance has to run under its own group & id. I have also copied /etc/init.d/apache2 to the new directory and modified pidfile location and http.conf location accordingly. The apache2 configtest returns Syntax OK. When I try to start the second instance, the result is "Starting httpd2 (prefork) done" and returns almost immediately. However, a ps -ef | grep httpd2 shows no new processes. 'apache2 status' returns "dead". However, when I stop the first instance, I can successfully start the second instance and view pages properly. What is preventing the second instance from starting? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, greanie ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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