Let me describe the problem I need to solve:
There is a sandbox server (Debian), each developer has own user account on it. I need to provide an easy and quick way of running/stopping any number of nginx instances on different ports for different projects. These will be used only by QA for testing purposes.
For example:
Alice runs a server on sandbox.example.com:4001 that points to folder /home/alice/web/staging_2014_09_24
Bob runs three servers:
sandbox.example.com:5123 -> /home/bob/www/dev_2014_09_24_login_fix
sandbox.example.com:5124 -> /home/bob/www/staging_2014_09_20
sandbox.example.com:5126 -> /home/bob/www/testing_release_features
Each of these folders would contain some branch of PHP code from Git.
Questions:
1. Is there an easy, common way to do this? The solution I now think about is writing a script, which would create a parameterized config for nginx and then run a new server instance using it. It could be executed like: ./serverManager start www/staging_2014_09_20 5124 or ./serverManager stop 5124
2. Do I also need to spawn new php-fpm process for every server or I can use one common instance?
