Jonathan Hull wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I would like to have my cake and eat it too, in that I would like my
>application to use a Firebird 1.5 service on an alternate port for my
>exclusive use, while not conflicting with a different Firebird 1.5
>service to exist on the standard 3050.
>
>Ideally I would envisage a situation similar to Apache, where the
>service name can be supplied as a parameter to the executable on
>execution.
>
>Does anyone know if there are any architectural reasons why this
>can't happen, or if this is possible, or if with a simple bit of code
>change it could be achieved? It would most definitely save me the
>concern of whether a Firebird is installed, and what version etc.
>
>Cheers,
>Jono
>
>

Hi Jono,

This was discussed by Artur Anjos last days with someone that has a
problem very similar to yours.

Take a look on the messages from the past few days.

There is a file under your firebird root instalation directory named
firebird.conf, there you could change the port where fb will listen on.

The client connection string should be somthing like this:
"server_name/port_number:path_to_database"
"myserver/3051:/home/bd/test.fdb" for unices
"myserver/3051:c:\mydata\test.fdb" for windows

Simple as that... ;-)

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br