Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry. I indeed wanted process isolation. The server I am currently building out needs to support several development groups; all which require their own webserver instance. Initially I was wanting to go with IP based virtual hosting, but this would not allow me to shutdown one of the instances without affecting the others. Additionally, a poorly written application in one of the instances could negatively affect performance and/or stability of the others as well. So, for this particular environment I thought it'd be best to run multiple daemons. (each instance using a unique IP address). Anyway, after reading the various replies, I decided to make some minor modifications to "apachectl" to support multiple daemons (instances). Now, when running "apachectl stop|start|restart|graceful" it will apply to all instances (useful as a /etc/init.d startup script). However, if I want to start/stop/restart a particular instance, I can do a "apachectl start|stop|restart|graceful instance-name" instead. So, all is well right now :-) Thanks again for all your replies! Cheers, Richard --- "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nick Kew wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:23, Richard de > Vries wrote: > > > >>I have the need to run multiple daemons off of the > >>same apache base install. > > > > Erm, why? > > Why not? > > >>Each daemon will have it's > >>own configuration file of course, but since they > are > >>all configured pretty much the same (same modules > etc) > >>I don't see a need to have several apache > installs. > > > > Sounds like you want to read up on virtual hosts. > > No, it sounds like he desires to have process > isolation for different > contexts; which is fine. Many of the end users I > support professionally > use this same approach. Different scoreboards, pid > files, and logs and > listeners and you should be golden. > > Bill > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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