On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:22:51 -0500 Tom Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any ways to implement persistent connections to different > databases under one instance of Apache? From my reading of > Apache::DBI and from some of my testing it appears that this can not > be done. Here is what I want to do. Server1 is running multiple > named based virtual hosts. Each of the database run on different > servers. > > server1 (app1) -> db1 > server1 (app2) -> db2 > server1 (app3) -> db3 > > The most important and most used application connects to db1 and is > running fine under apache and apache::dbi, but there are some smaller > apps that we tried to bundle into this environment that need to > connect to other servers running different database instances. There isn't any reason you can't do this with Apache::DBI. It will pool connections based on the full connect string. > I don't want to eliminate apache::dbi and just use dbi. I don't want > to get new machines to handle these smaller apps. I don't think I can > have multiple instances of apache on a single Linux server, but am > not sure. Just an FYI, but yes you can run multiple Apaches on a single system. It's done all the time. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------
