Subject Re: [firebird-support] How to user multiple instances of Firebird?
Author Jesus Garcia
El 24/11/2011, a las 00:06, W O <sistemas2000profesional@...> escribió:

> Hello everybody
>
> In a computer with Windows 7 Ultimate I want to have installed Firebird
> 2.1.3 and Firebird 2.5.1
>
> I had read that I need to install the version 2.5.1 by hand, copying the
> .ZIP file into a folder. I did that, then in the folder BIN execute the
> batch file INSTALL_SUPER.BAT with the FB2 parameter. Now, I can see that
> there are 2 instances of Firebird running: DefaultInstance and FB2. That's
> all ok.
>
> However, when in the ISQL program of the 2.5.1 version I want to connect to
> the database, it show me the message:
> "unsupported on-disk structure for file MYDATA.FDB; found 11.2, support
> 11.1"
>
> The question is: How I can use the FB2 instance?
>
> or:
>
> How I can use the port 3050 with version 2.1.3 and the port 3051 with
> version 2.5.1?
>

Edit firebird.conf and change the value of the port in the instance of 3051. After that To connect To the database use, for example localhost/3051:your database path or alias.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Walter.
>
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