On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 16:08 +0800, Edwin Lee wrote: > Hi, > > Is is alright to have two installations of nginx on the same machine? > I have a running instance of nginx with php installed from distribution > package manager. > Instead of writing another config, I would like to compile and install nginx > from source code and run as second instance. > The second instance is to optimize for load balancing, reverse proxy, cache > and modsecurity. > > My concerns is would this break the system on debian squeeze? > > Thanks for answering. > > Edwin Lee > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx Yes, it's perfectly ok to do so. Make sure you're installing into a separate location ( eg /usr/local ), and you'll need a separate startup script.
You cannot share port/ip address pairs though. hth, Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP http://www.greengecko.co.nz Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway Skype: sholdowa _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
