Subject | RE: [firebird-support] Pitfalls with multiple instances? |
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Author | Alan McDonald |
Post date | 2004-12-10T07:23:05Z |
> Are there any pitfalls you should be aware of, if running more than oneI can think of reasons why you would need to run IB6, FB1.02 and FB1.5
> FB 1.5 instance? (Windows, SuperServer)
>
> One thing I've seen is, that the registry entry
> HKLM/FireBird Project/FireBird Server/Instance/DefaultInstance does not
> seem to works as I would expect it to.
>
> If you start the first service from c:\FB1 then it will look into that
> key to find the config path. ok.
> Now if you start a second service from c:\FB2 it will look into the
> *same* key, i.e. I did not find a way to tell the second
> service/instance to look into something like HKLM/FireBird
> Project/FireBird Server/Instance/DefaultInstance/MySecondInstance
>
> I removed the whole key, which means that the config path is just taken
> one level above the exe-dir (which should be "bin").
>
> That seems to be working fine for me. Any advice or best practices?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Olaf Monien
together, but why 2 instances of the same version?
Alan