Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:23:11 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Marshall <dmarshall@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Multiple Apaches Message-ID: <200505171823.12202.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <53f1586305051716007416ee32@mail.gmail.com> References: <53f1586305051716007416ee32@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 17 May 2005 18:00, David Marshall wrote: > Hi all, > > My boss has finally seen the light, and we're migrating from a > cobbled-together Linux box to FreeBSD very soon. In the four > months I've been working for him, I have spent more time fiddling > with our Linux servers than I spent in 4 years running FreeBSD on a > number of servers. > > On one of my old FreeBSD servers, I wanted a regular Apache > installation, so I had /usr/ports/www/apache13 installed. At the > same time, I maintained a specially-configured Apache installation > in /usr/local2 that was, among other things, statically linked with > mod_perl. > > On the new box that we're putting together soon, we'll need to have > apache2 going, so that's obviously something to install/maintain > via ports. At the same time, we're going to need a couple of > statically linked apache13 installations. > > Should I plan on repeating the what I did before, which is to > maintain an apache installation separate from ports? Or is there > some clever way to have ports install stuff in different places > under different names? For instance, I'd like to have www/apache2 > installed in the default location and install www/apache13-modperl > with some PREFIX, telling it to disregard any CONFLICTS? Can I > give a ports installation a different DISTNAME so that it's in the > package database under some other name? > > TIA! This may be wrong or even mis-guided advice but the first thing that came to my mind was perhaps running one (or both I suppose) apache in a jail. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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