[ic] best set up with several stores

Chris Jesseman admin@sitemajic.net
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:38:32 -0500 (EST)


Michelle,

Sounds like you could use the TcpMap directive to adjust where your 2nd IC 
server is listening.

http://developer.akopia.com/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=reference24%2e36

-Chris

Quoting "Michelle Wilant (home)" <michelle@wilant.com>:

> Thanks for your quick response.  Currently, I have installed
> interchange
> into two separate directories.  (Each directory has its own apache
> httpd.conf file, too.) So my directory structure is as follows:
> 
> /web/sites/store1/(interchange root, also cgi-bin, etc)
> /web/sites/store2/(its own interchange installation)
> 
> I can get store 1's interchange server running, no problem.  By doing
> /web/sites/store1/interchange/bin/interchange -r  (as the interchange
> user
> of course)
> 
> But when I go to start up an interchange server for store 2, it won't
> start
> because it sees the other one running.  Therefore, right now I can't get
> two
> interchange servers running.
> 
> I'm just wanting, currently, to run one apache server & interchange
> server
> per catalog (aka store directory).  That way our developers can
> restart
> whenever they need to update information etc. without affecting other
> stores.
> 
> Help - Thanks
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Heins" <mikeh@minivend.com>
> To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ic] best set up with several stores
> 
> 
> > Quoting Dan B (db@cyclonehq.dnsalias.net):
> > > Yes, you can also easily run multiple interchange deamons per box. 
> Just
> > > install them to different directories (/usr/local/ic-4.6.3,
> > > or  /usr/local/ic-CVS-$DATE is how I do it).  It doesn't hurt for
> them
> to
> > > share a common catalog directory (such as /var/ic), but you
> probably
> don't
> > > want two daemons accessing the same catalog at the same time :-)
> > >
> >
> > Actually, that is not a problem. It isn't really any different than
> > different users hitting the same catalog with browser clicks on the
> > same daemon with forked children. We are very fussy about locking
> files,
> > which accounts for Interchange's good reputation for robustness. 8-)
> >
> > In fact, I recommend this. Make one daemon with the UI for your
> admin,
> > protecting it with HTTP basic auth and/or allow-deny IP/host
> statements
> > in the web server, and disable the UI in the production version that
> > customers use. This is much more secure as all of the GlobalSub and
> > UserTags that modify files are out of play.
> >
> > (You might have to include some of the UI usertags from
> lib/UI/usertag
> > if you employed them in the catalog -- the only one I can think of
> that
> > we use in the demo is [button ...] and maybe [table-editor ...] in
> the
> > DEV_4_7_0 branch.)
> >
> > I will try and include instructions and a little batch file to do
> > that in the next release.
> >
> > Best,
> > Mike
> > --
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> >
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> >
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