[Zope] Zope instance question

[J Cameron Cooper]

Sean Duffy wrote:

>How would I go about running 3 separate zope instances from a single install with three instance directories in /var/zope-sites?
>
>I am not using Apache and installed wo_pcgi.py
>
>I can start the primary zope install w/o problems, so I know it works.
>
>However I can't seem to point to the instance anywhere in the startup scripts.
>
>I'm beginning to suspect that running multiple instances is a w_pcgi/Apache thing,
>and hoping that's not the case.
>  
>
In pre-2.7 Zope you'll have to edit the scripts to set INSTANCE_HOME 
appropriately or do so in your environment before running the scripts.

Often this is all you need::

INSTANCE_HOME=/usr/local/zope/instance
export INSTANCE_HOME

I sometimes use `pwd` instead if I have a lot of instances. If you do 
this you can even use just one script as long as you call it always in 
the instance directory.

Make sure you set different ports or it'll never work.

          --jcc

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