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jamgood96

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Registered: 2012-01-09

Posts: 42

BackupPC - Multiple Instances of Apache

I'm currently playing around with BackupPC to see if it will work for our office. I noticed that it requires apache to be run under the user of backuppc. I don't know enough to know the pluses and minuses of this, but I'm curious if it is possible to run multiple instances of apache - one for BackupPC and another standard setup? Is this a ridiculous way of doing this? Is there a better option?

Thanks as always!

Vrob

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 42

Re: BackupPC - Multiple Instances of Apache

Apache is capable of running multiple sites from within one single instance and even of creating VirtualHosts.
So I'd rather recommend to check some documentation/examples on these topics on the net, than trying to start multiple apaches.

Apart from that, you can't have multiple daemons/instances listening on the same port

Greets,
Vrob

jamgood96

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Registered: 2012-01-09

Posts: 42

Re: BackupPC - Multiple Instances of Apache

Apache is capable of running multiple sites from within one single instance and even of creating VirtualHosts.
So I'd rather recommend to check some documentation/examples on these topics on the net, than trying to start multiple apaches.

Apart from that, you can't have multiple daemons/instances listening on the same port

Greets,
Vrob

I have experience with multiple virtual hosts, but the way that BackupPC is setup is that it requires apache to run as the user backuppc instead of http.