Apache Profiles

[gvkv]

I was taking a look in the apache22 rc script and I noticed rc.conf entry:

apache22_profiles

Perusing the script a profile seems to be whereby you can set limits, flags and so on but I it's not clear to me what a profile is exactly and how and why I would want to define one. Can you enable/disable modules via profile? Where are they used? Where do the

\${apache22_${profile}_enable:-${apaches22_enable}}

files reside?

 

[quintessence]

Hello ,

Profiles is used when you want to setup for example 2 different types of web servers .

apache22_enable="YES"
apache22_profiles="frontend backend"
apache22_frontend_configfile="/usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf"
apache22_backend_configfile="/usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf"

1st profile is a frontend web server for serving static content ( e.g images , html , css , etc ) .
2nd profile is a backend web server for serving dynamic content ( e.g php , perl or etc ) .

88339  ??  Ss     0:00.15 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88350  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88351  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88352  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88353  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88354  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-frontend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.frontend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88355  ??  Ss     0:00.19 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88356  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88357  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88358  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88359  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT
88360  ??  S      0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -f /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd-backend.conf -c PidFile /var/run/httpd.backend.pid -DNOHTTPACCEPT

 

[gvkv]

So does multiple profiles => multiple instances?

 

[quintessence]

Yes