On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:00 PM, LuKreme <kremels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 24-Feb-10 10:49, Sheryl wrote: >> >> Instead, just have a different directory for each instance. For instance >> >> /usr/local/apache -- where you install your software >> >> /opt/server1 -- first server >> bin, build, error, icons, include, lib, man, manual, modules, >> mime-types, magic are links to equivalent in /usr/local/apache >> cgi-bin, conf, htdocs, logs are directories; conf should be a copy of >> /usr/local/apache/conf > > What benefit does this give you over running VirtualHost? > (I wouldn't set up a second instance like suggested, but..) 1) You can load different modules in different instances 2) Separation of concerns 3) Different global configuration options 4) Different compile time options For instance, on our reverse proxies, we run two instances of apache, one handles SSL and runs prefork MPM, and one handles regular HTTP and runs the event MPM. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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