Change ALL the instance specific parameters, like listen addresses, pid files, etc. I suspect you are trying to use the same pid file for two httpd instances.
Rick Houser Web Engineer From: eric tse [mailto:hfe...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 17:02 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [users@httpd] Re: two duplicate instances httpd pid conflict issues EXTERNAL EMAIL This problem resolved. I need to update server root in apachetcl. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:03 PM, eric tse <hfe...@gmail.com<mailto:hfe...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I am doing some experiments, first I create separate instances by duplicating (copying) an existing running instances. (apache 2.0x .. on solaris 10). I update the instance parameters (such as server root), take out the site ip. When do apachectl start I have httpd (pid 3074) already running ... I need to stop the older instance in order to let the new goes up Have you guys seen it before? Can you please help? Thanks and regards, Eric