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Re: Conflicting alternatives



On Jo, 18 feb 21, 08:15:39, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Richard Hector wrote: 
> > On 18/02/21 5:22 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:06:37AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote:
> > > > You could stop one and start the other,
> > > > there's no resources or port conflict.
> > > > I want to just keep both, not run them at the same time.
> > > 
> > > Again, as stated at the start of this fiasco of a thread, Debian policy
> > > says that all daemons must be started up by default.
> > 
> > It is possible to install both nginx and apache2 at the same time. Both
> > presumably try to get port 80? Not sure how that resolves; I don't have a
> > machine I want to try it on at the moment.
> 
> The order of events is:
> 
> - install one. Change the listening port to something other than
>   80.
> 
> - install the next.
> 
> Web servers are built to interoperate with each other; it is not
> ridiculous to have a dozen web servers on a machine each
> listening to different ports, or listening on sockets and being
> proxied by a different web server.

It seems to me the important difference is that it is comparatively easy 
and common to interact with a webserver on a non-standard port, whereas 
running a SMTP server on a non-standard port might be useful only in 
very specific corner cases.


Kind regards,
Andrei
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