From: Joe <jj_stuart@...>
Date: 2009-08-13T02:45:47+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple projects - Apache

Thanks for the reply. I ended up doing pretty much the same thing. I create the project, link to the public folder and then in an .htaccess file, I add RailsBaseURI /railsProject.

The only problem I have, is that it requires a trailing slash after the project name when accessing it via the web. 



----- Original Message ----
From: James Herdman <james.herdman@gmail.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:04:46 AM
Subject: Re: multiple projects - Apache

Hi friends.

The way I'm doing this is to have a single directory I symlink all of my
app's 'public' directory to. I set this as my DocumentRoot and then have a
single VHOST file for all of my apps. It isn't pretty, but it's fairly easy
to parse with Ruby. So, my VHOST file looks something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /u/apps
  RailsBaseUri /foo
  RailsBaseUri /bar
  # etc...
</VirtualHost>

I have had *zero* luck using multiple VHOST files. This may be due to my own
lack of knowledge in using Apache though.

You may wish to redirect your query to the Passenger mailing list though.
They'll likely be of more help. Keep me posted though. I'd love to hear what
your resolution is.

James H.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jason Stewart <jstewart@fusionary.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from Joe's message of Tue Aug 11 14:31:53 -0400 2009:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to configure Apache so I can create multiple rails projects
> without
> > modifying httpd.conf everytime. Right now, I have one project setup and a
> > apache virtualhost that points to it. Here is how I have it configured.
> >
> > <VirtualHost *:80>
> > ServerName rails.example.com
> > DocumentRoot /var/www/rails_project/public
> > RailsEnv development
> > </VirtualHost>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> AFAIK, that's not possible with passenger. I believe that a new vhost is
> needed for every rails application on your machine (someone please
> correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> If you have an existing vhost with something else on it, you can specify
> that your rails application is in a subdirectory of that document root
> like this:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>  ServerName rails.example.com
>  DocumentRoot /var/www/rails_project/public
>  RailsEnv development
>   RailsBaseURI /rails
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>