Bitnami install multiple applications with single web server (Apache)

tortorelli 2014-10-06 00:15:20 UTC #1

Hello! I have three applications installed bitnami: Redmine, Wordpress and Mediawiki, and all use apache as web server. But I can not use the three applications at the same time because of apache. How could I keep all applications using only one apache server?
Thank you!

asce 2014-10-07 13:39:16 UTC #2

Hello @tortorelli.

Could you please explain a bit what is the exact issue that you have? What do you mean when you say that you can't use them at the same time.

Bitnami stacks provide an isolated environment so you shouldn't have any issue using several stacks at the same time, the only thing to take into account is that each one should use different ports for servers.

If you want several applications to share servers you can take a look at Bitnami modules.

https://bitnami.com/stack/ruby/modules

Let us know if this helps.

Best regards.

rmeske 2016-03-11 23:26:58 UTC #3

Hello @tortorelli,

I know this is an old post I am resurrecting. It looks like only some apps have modules created for them. Therefore, I would like to open this up again and re-ask the question.

If I install an app and then try to install another app I get a folder already exists error. Instead it would be great if the installer was smart enough to merge with an existing install. For example, two applications that require a AMP stack, could share the existing Apache and MySQL servers. This could be extended to sharing other common applications like Ruby, Subversion, Git, etc.

This would be particularly helpful for QA environments so that several apps can be installed, updated, and tested prior to putting in a production environment.

I understand there could be version issues depending on software being loaded, but as long as version numbers are documented and the user is given the choice of over-writing, then the individual installing will have the choice.

An alternative would be to develop some documentation on how to manually perform this type of install.

Ron

fortiz 2016-03-21 14:20:40 UTC #4

Hi @rmeske

Thank you for your suggestions but as you pointed, we don't have modules for some apps due to these reasons (some dependencies and version issues). However, we have modules for almost all applications on top of AMP stack and others like Redmine on top of Ruby Stack.

Please, don't hesitate to write us if you have more questions.

Regards,
Fran

spurgeonbj 2018-09-30 03:35:29 UTC #5

Hi.

Thanks for this thread.

In a situation where, i would like to install a *amp app with existing apache / mysql servers of another stack like openedx, which doesnt have php, if you can provide individual php module, it would be great.

I tried installing orocrm module with openedx, with additional php but the installation fails with post installation scripts as I guess some php modules are missing. Is there any documentation for installing php in this case, or any way of porting php part from orocrm stack and merging manually with openedx?

Thanks!

jota 2018-10-01 09:46:47 UTC #6

Hi @spurgeonbj,

As you mentioned, there is no PHP in the Bitnami edX solution so you can't configure Apache to serve those files. In this case you will need to install the whole stack that will result in having different Apache servers for the different applications.

Let us know if you have any other question

spurgeonbj 2018-10-01 10:05:05 UTC #8

Hi @jota,

Thanks a ton for your kind and quick response.

So, just want to suggest that you may kindly consider this as a feature request for such cases?

It would help conserve server resources in setting up other redundant services like apache / mysql etc.

Also, is there any documentation on implementing vhost name mapping to different ports in apache - with respect to bitnami ??

this can help by having app1.example.com and app2.example.com mapped and served from different apache ports... making it easy for clients to access the services out of a single host...

Thanks once again!!

jota 2018-10-02 09:55:50 UTC #9

Hi @spurgeonbj,

This section in our documentation is a general one but can help you with this

https://docs.bitnami.com/general/infrastructure/lamp/configuration/configure-custom-application/

As you can see, edX has different configuration files in the apps/edx/conf folder. The httpd-vhosts.conf one defines the virtual hosts you want to use. You will need to include different "Listen" configuration lines there if you want Apache to listen in different ports.

Let us know if you have any questions

spurgeonbj 2018-10-03 10:36:05 UTC #10

Hi @jota,

Thanks a ton for your kind inputs....

Will check these out...

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