----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew E. White" <aewhite@xxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Multiple Apache servers advice > Due to a set of requirements, I am having to setup apache to run with multiple instances. For the most part we want the httpd.conf files to be the same. I realize that I must set each instance to bind to its own set of ports, but what else should I worry about? > > Are there going to be any issues with log file sharing? I don't know if writes are atomic. > Any common modules that might have problems with this scheme? > Are there any other problems/risks I should consider? > > I have read the following... > http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.apache.user/2002-05/msg00972.html > > But the thread doesn't address *how* to "make sure that each Apache instance has its own lock files, scoreboard files, PID file, log files, proxy cache directory [etc]" > > Thanks in advance, > Andrew > > I configured/installed two instances of 2.0.59 recently, with different --prefix(es). Without a 'make clean' after the first install, both were sharing the original's log files. PID and logging are now separate. Don't know about other files. --Jon --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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