Using mongrel to serve 2 rails apps

Rails
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hi,

i’m using mongrel as my production webserver, and i want to serve 2
rails apps

e.g.

www.myapp.com
www.myapp.com/forums

i want in effect to connect the second app to /forums on the same url.

currently i have 2 mongrels running as follows:-

my main app on port 80 at www.myapp.com
my forums app on port 81 at www.myapp.com

rather than giving out the URL www.myapp,com:81 for my forums, I would
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www.my.com:81

i’ve looked on the mongrel website and I’ve come across mongrel clusters
and also mogrel configuration scripts - but this all quite complex and
i’m not sure if either is the answer.

any pointers?

cheers,

-john

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John H. wrote:

I’d suggest putting a web server with load balancing and proxying
support in front of your mongrels such as Apache or Lighty. Then use
the prefix feature of mongrel to bind app2 to /forums/.

–R

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Randall Potter wrote:

John H. wrote:

I’d suggest putting a web server with load balancing and proxying
support in front of your mongrels such as Apache or Lighty. Then use
the prefix feature of mongrel to bind app2 to /forums/.

–R

thanks Randall - i have lighty installed but i’m not sure how to ‘put in
in front’ of the two mongrels…

presumably i start the 2 mongrels on some higher port numbers, say 8100
and 8101.
then run lighty on port 80.

then do i not then need to tell lighty to bind /forums/ to the 2nd
mongrel?
(or something like that…)

cheers,

-john

4

Hello,
You could also try the following:
Use ‘mongrel_rails start’ with ‘–script=/path/to/script.rb’ and use
any options you like in this file, especially the uri[1] method.
You can then mount handlers to different mount points.
It should work, but I never tested it, so I’ve no idea concerning
performance issues.

Best regards

[1]
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Mongrel/Configurator.html#M000101

John H. schrieb:

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thanks Randall,

i’m getting close now… but still not quite there yet…

i have 2 mongrels on 8100 and 8101.

i’m trying to configure lighty to point / to 8100 and /forums to 8101.
so, just starting with the main site on 8100, i have this in my
lighttpd.conf file…

proxy.balance = “hash”
proxy.server = ( “/” => (( “host” => “127.0.0.1”, “port” => 8100))

but all i get is a blank page - which is better than an error message i
guess…

does anyone have a working lighttpd.conf file i could learn from?

cheers,

-john

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John H. wrote:

(or something like that…)

cheers,

-john

You do need to tell Lighty where to find the mongrels it’s forwarding
to. Look into the documentation for Lighty’s mod_proxy for the syntax.

Using your example; you want to forward / to your primary app at
http://localhost:8100 and forward /forums/ to http:localhost:8101.

When you start the mongrel(s) for the forum application you need to be
sure to pass the --prefix=/ option (e.g. mongrel_rails start
–prefix=/forums -e production -d ) otherwise, your link_to, button_to
et. al. will get confused and keep trying to send you back to app1.

–R