On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:06:16PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I can't seem to find an answer in any of the normal places, so... > > Short of making from scratch, is there a way to get apt-get to install a > copy of apache in an alternate directory, so I can run several demons in > parallel? > I often run Apache by setting up a /home/foo/apache2 and /home/foo/public_html, where public_html contains the content and apache2 contains the following directories: bin, conf, init.d, lock, log, run. The bin directory contains a copy of apache2ctl modified to start/stop apache using the different directory layout. The conf directory is essentially a copy of /etc/apache2 customized for that particular apache instance. The init.d directory contians a copy of the /etc/init.d/apache2 script which has been modified for the new directory layout. The log, run and lock directories contain the various files created at runtime by apache. What I then do is create a cron job @reboot that will start that user's apache instance. In order that everything might work smoothly so that users don't need to use some high numbered port, I set the individual apache instance to use a high number port and then use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse in the main apache instance. This allows me to something like have one user with mod_php enabled (notriously insecure, but performs well) and another with mod_perl and another with mod_python. The advantage to this approach is that with everything in a separate memory space, the chance that someone rogue user will get to another user's content is minimzed to a degree. The disadvantage to this approach is that with everything in a seperate memory space, you use more memory.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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