Krist van Besien wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Eric Covener wrote:Copying binaries doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.Hi. You're right, on the face of it it does not seem to make a lot of sense. You should be able easily to run 2 instances of Apache from the same binaries.Indeed, and that is what I do. I have a default install of apache on my (solaris) system, which I compiled from source, and afterwards didn't touch. I have it installed in /opt/apache/httpd-<version>. That way I can even have different versions of apache on the same machine. Then I have different instances of webservers in /opt/webserver/<servername>. Each of these directories has a conf directory, a log directory and a htdocs directory. I also make a link here to /opt/apache/httpd-<version>/modules and /opt/apache/httpd-<version>/bin, so that I can use this dir as a serverroot. I have a script that uses a servername as argument and that starts a httpd instance with the correct binary, serverroot and config. This allows me to start and stop each instance seperately. Myapache script in /etc/init.d just iterates over the directories in /opt/webservers and starts (or stops) them.
Hi Krist.You are right, it is more logical and more elegant than copying the binaries etc.. but I think the choice also depends on circumstances. If you have just a few servers of the same type to take care of, then you can do a nice and elegant job, organise these things once and for all, and you can remember what you did and how it works. The circumstances may be different if you have a lot of servers of different types and have to install a new one every week. Then you consider a solution that is maybe not so elegant, but gets the job done, with a minimum of changes to the standard package installations and updates and startup scripts etc.. I don't know which approach Eric will prefer in the end, but now he has some elements to decide, and I guess that is what he was looking for.
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