Yes . you may use port-offset feature to bind the instance to different port numbers concurrently in the same host.
BTW: you can play with derby also , as nuking old data is easy ( rm -rf <derbyfiles> ) . with mysql/pgsql you have to put more effort in emptying the database. HTH! regds mallah. On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Craig Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got OFBiz up and running on my Linux laptop with a MySQL backend. Is > it possible to have another instance running somehow at the same time that > uses a different DB? Well, maybe three different DBs -- looks like I'm > currently using ofbiz, ofbizolap, and ofbiztenant. > > What I'm aiming for is to have a "live" and a "play" area eventually. If I > want to go try something, I want to keep from breaking my install. > > Initially though, I want to have the default data in one, and the other a > blank slate. > > Right now the install is sitting in /ofbiz and being started up with a > bash script via systemctl. I've not tried it yet, but I'm wondering if I > have to create the three new DBs, and duplicate what I have in /ofbiz to > something like /ofbiz-play, then create a similar startup script that fires > up things in that /ofbiz-play directory. > >
