I am wondering somebody knows if it is still possible to run 2 apache daemons at the same time on one machine with different usernames? I have installed OpenSuSE 12.1.
Backround: On my server I want to separate the WebDAV access and the PHP application.
The PHP application should not be able to write on htdocs but write access should be possible via WebDAV.
Been many years since I considered this configuration.
The better question might be what your application(s) require and if this is for a Production environment what would make most sense minimizing costs and complexity in the long run.
In each of my cases, I decided it made far more sense to simplify my deployments by deploying webserver applications on different machines, particularly when you consider how cheap, simple and easy it is to deploy in different VMs.
That said, although not usually by choice but usually for reasons of least resistance I frequently deploy multiple webservers (not usually multiple Apache instances) on my Development machine because that’s how my Dev tools are setup by default.
So yes, as you seem to indicate it’s been possible to deploy multiple webservers simultaneously on the same OS and I’m not aware of anything that has changed recently.
But should you?
An alternative that likely makes more sense is to deploy a single Apache instance but on that instance run any number of website applications.