Description
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Multiwatch forks multiple instance of one application and keeps them running;
it is made to be used with spawn-fcgi, so all forks share the same fastcgi
socket (no webserver restart needed if you increase/decrease the number of
forks), and it is easier than to setup multiple daemontool supervised instances.


Homepage
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 * http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/multiwatch/wiki


Usage
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Example for spawning two rails instances:

  #!/bin/sh
  # run script

  exec spawn-fcgi -n -s /tmp/fastcgi-rails.sock -u www-rails -U www-data -- /usr/bin/multiwatch -f 2 -- /home/rails/public/dispatch.fcgi

More details in the man page.


Build dependencies
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 * glib >= 2.16.0 (http://www.gtk.org/)
 * libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html)
 * cmake or autotools (for snapshots/releases the autotool generated files are included)


Build
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 * snapshot/release with autotools:
   ./configure
   make

 * build from git: git://git.lighttpd.net/multiwatch.git
   * with autotools:
     ./autogen.sh
     ./configure
     make
   * with cmake (should work with snapshots/releases too)
     cmake .
     make