README.rst

Description

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

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.

Usage

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

• 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

• 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