Two Servers, One Box

rbuser

I've got one HTTPS system working well and want to add another to support
both a production and development environment from the same server. Any
thoughts on this one? I've tried several approaches but don't really like
any of them...

- Passing the desired prod/dev "status" as a report parameter works but adds
a lot of overhead to reconnect each time to the proper Oracle instance.

- The RBService supports one server. Can this be updated to support two
servers? Without the service a crash becomes fatal.

- A second report server box running on a second IP. This would add expense
in both licensing and hardware to support a handful of users hitting the
development instance.


What's working for me now - RB 10.01 Server / 443 SSL into the DLL / 1333
into the RBServer / Oracle 9i via DOA all running on the same box.

nardmoseley

You can create a second windows service application - here is an example
that you can download and use.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/CustomRBServiceApp.zip

note: each server application running on the same machine needs to use a
different port number


The 3 options I can think of are:

1. Run two service app on the same machine

2. Use two server machines
3. Have the developers create a local server on their own machine.

rbuser

Hey Nard - Thanks for this, it looks promising to run two services on the
same box.

When I try to open your example in Delphi 6 SP2 I'm getting a number of
undefined properties on Tservice.

What am I missing? Or won't this work in D6?

nardmoseley

I used D7 to create that example. You will need to test it with D6.