On 23/08/2010 21:13, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:

> I found this in the FAQ:
>
> http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq60
>
> It talks about pre 2.1, is there any documentation on how to have 2.5
> and 2.1 running at the same time? Or is the above still applicable?
>

The following is not a critic to the FB team, just want to point out
that it is not as easy to find this as it could be.

I did a bit of trial and error stuff as I couldn't find anything on the
fb site - it is probably there but I can't find it.

Tried the 2.5rc3 installer, it warned me and indicated in the
docs/readme screen that I needed to use the .zip instead if want
multiple fb server instances. After extracting the stuff form the zip I
found in the doc folder the 2.1 installation guide (not listed on:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=doc ), which then directs me to
"install_windows_manually.txt" in the same folder.

The later doc then gives some of the steps which need to be run after
making "appropriate changes to firebird.conf". The only place I find
some explanation on these "appropriate steps" is in
"http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq60/", which brings me back to my initial
question.

I would like to have this simultaneous setup just for testing of 2.5 for
a short period (assuming that 2.5 final will be out within the next few
month), so I guess that the easiest would be:

- keep 2.1 server running as a service
- when needed run 2.5 server as an application

To run 2.5 as an application, without conflicting with the 2.1 instance,
I think I only need to change its firebird.conf file and in it I should
only need to change "#RemoteServicePort = 3050" to e.g.
"RemoteServicePort = 3055" and change my application's connection string
to use this port.

Would appreciate if someone could confirm that this would be fine (good
enough with out getting into big trouble with my 2.1 installation) or
point me to some documentation I should read before going any further
with this.

Werner