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. 

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   Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   http://www.wiles.org
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