Production setup for second instance in single machine

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We have a machine hosted on Azure where the first Frappe Bench instance is running successfully in production. Now, I need to create a second instance on the same server. However, when I attempt to run the bench setup production command for the second instance, I encounter an error stating “sudo: bench: command not found.” I would like assistance in identifying the issue and properly configuring multiple production benches on the same server.

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Can you make sure that you are in the correct directory on the machine? By default, this is frappe-bench, or it may be called something else depending on how you initialized your frappe instance.

Since the command bench cannot be found with sudo i suspect the error there.

Try these commands

which bench
bench --version
sudo which bench
sudo bench --version
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Hi,

I checked the commands as suggested.

  • which bench returns the correct bench path from the user environment.

  • bench --version works as expected and shows the installed version.

  • However, when running with sudo, sudo which bench does not return any path, and sudo bench --version results in “sudo: bench: command not found.”

It looks like the bench executable is available only in the current user’s PATH and not in the root/sudo environment. Please let me know if you would like me to run the commands using the full bench path or adjust the environment variables.

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Then try this and only execute it in the correct bench directory:

cd /home/frappe/<your-second-bench-instance>
sudo -H "$(which bench)" setup production

You just have to make sure that your two instances don’t mess up each other’s nginx configs. For setups like this, I would rather recommend running them using Frappe Docker.