Re: second/custom PEAR/PECL installation. possible? how?

On 6/6/07, Austin C <galacticneo@gmail.com> wrote:

Why do you have 2 apaches on the same computer? I didnt even know you could do that without causing problems. On 6/6/07, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: On 6/6/07, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

I have a [gentoo] server with 2 apache installations ... the std distro apache runs with php4 which includes an installation of PEAR and PECL. the second apache is compiled by hand and runs with php5 (also compiled by hand) - obviously both of these are installed somewhere other than the default. the [custom] php5 installation does not include PEAR/PECL (when I built/installed it I skipped that because I was worried I'd get

a conflict

with the existing PEAR/PECL install and break something). I would like to add the APC extension to the php5 setup, normally this

is

as involved as doing the following:

pecl install apc

only in this case that would install APC in the php4 setup. the question is how do I go about getting a second/custom PEAR/PECL

setup running

which I can use with/for the php5 setup. is this even possible? or am I stuck with a manual download, compile and install of APC for the php5 setup as described here for instance:

http://carroll.org.uk/archives/2006/02/02/alternative-php-cache-apc-on-debian )?

tia, Jochem PS - STWF is giving me no joy, everything I find assumes the pecl/pear

commands

are setup and running. PPS - sorry for the overuse of the word 'setup' :-P -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Is there any particular reason you couldn't recompile PHP5 with the PEAR/PECL packages outside of the path? A prime example of running two separate Apache servers with separate PHP installations is cPanel --- if you're familiar with the service, you'll probably already know that it uses it's own paths (/var/cpanel, /usr/local/cpanel/bin), not those common on the system (/bin, /sbin, etc.). I've had different test boxes set up with numerous compartmentalized installations --- one of my kitchen machines had more than a dozen, just to try to screw it up one day because I was bored (yes, I have systems all throughout my house and my truck). As long as the PEAR/PECL API version matches the target PHP installation API version, you should have no problem. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Thanks, the webmaster of Galacticneo

I don't know the exact reason the OP has multiple installations of Apache/PHP running, but some reasons may be to have a separate control panel, test environment, alternate (redundant) connection swapping, et cetera. In any case, as long as it's configured and compiled properly, you can have a virtually unlimited number of separate servers running on one machine, even all sharing the same interface and data sources. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107