Re: Apache1/mp1 and Apache2/mp2 on the same machine

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That is a great idea and I will use it in the future.  Unfortunately, it
doesn't really help my users who, while very bright, are not perl
developers and would likely balk at doing that.

Thanks,
Scott

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 14:14 -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote:
> Scott Cain wrote:
> 
> >because I had to blow away my installation of mp1 to get my mp2 apps to
> >work.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I always build my servers with their own copy of perl in a directory 
> such as:
> /usr/local/httpd_20050419
> 
> I build a fresh perl and apache in that directory, and get everything 
> working.  My particular builds include a separate front end with SSL, 
> and two backends, one each of mod_perl and mod_php.  I then use 
> mod_rewrite to send requests to the correct back end.
> 
> After I have everything working, I then stop and unlink the 
> existing/running apache and then link
> ln -s /usr/local/httpd_20050419/apache_front /usr/local/apache_front
> ln -s /usr/local/httpd_20050419/apache_perl /usr/local/apache_perl
> ln -s /usr/local/httpd_20050419/apache_php /usr/local/apache_php
> ln -s /usr/local/httpd_20050419/perl/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl58xx
> 
> I can always go back to my previous set-up if I have problems.
> 
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