From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 23:23:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614DC16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:23:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC15343D62 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:23:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (12-218-17-195.client.mchsi.com[12.218.17.195]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20050517232313m9200gd4dge>; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:23:13 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Marshall Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:23:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <53f1586305051716007416ee32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53f1586305051716007416ee32@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505171823.12202.josh@tcbug.org> Subject: Re: Multiple Apaches X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 23:23:18 -0000 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