Multiple Apaches

David Marshall dmarshall at gmail.com
Tue May 17 16:00:45 PDT 2005


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!


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