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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
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Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

by Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Two Copies of Apache

To illustrate the possibilities, we will run two copies of Apache with different IP addresses on different consoles, as if they were on two completely separate machines. This is not something you want to do often, but on a heavily loaded site it may be useful to run two Apaches optimized in different ways. The different virtual hosts probably need very different configurations, such as different values for ServerType, User, TypesConfig, or ServerRoot (none of these directives can apply to a virtual host, since they are global to all servers, which is why you have to run two copies to get the desired effect). If you are expecting a lot of hits, you should avoid running more than one copy, as doing so will generally load the machine more.

You can find the necessary machinery in ... /site.twocopy. There are two subdirectories: customers and sales.

The Config file in ... /customers contains the following:

User webuser
Group webgroup
ServerName www.butterthlies.com
DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.twocopy/customers/htdocs
BindAddress www.butterthlies.com
TransferLog logs/access_log

In .../sales the Config file is as follows:

User webuser
Group webgroup
ServerName sales.butterthlies.com
DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.twocopy/sales/htdocs
Listen sales-not-vh.butterthlies.com:80
TransferLog logs/access_log

On this occasion, we will exercise the sales-not-vh.butterthlies.com URL. For the first time, we have more than one copy of Apache running, ...

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