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Apache web server on a multi-homed host

[Today’s run: 1.0 mile]

I’ve been wrestling with an Apache web server configuration this evening.

I have a multi-homed host (it has 3 network cards in it, and therefore 3 IP addresses). I want to run 3 separate web servers on it.

Before an operating system upgrade, I was able to set  the User and Group parameters in the httpd.conf file, and the Listen parameter for the IP address I wanted.  And I ran three separate web servers.

Now when I do that the last httpd that starts up overrides the User and Group settings of the ones that started previously.  That doesn’t seem right at all.

I’m not sure what I am doing wrong.  I’ve been looking at the online apache.org documentation but have not figured out how to do what I want to do.  Not yet anyway.