# Getting 2 rails apps running on a server? **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [August 17, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-2-rails-apps-running-on-a-server/112315 "2007-08-17T11:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-2-rails-apps-running-on-a-server/112315/1 "2007-08-17T11:20:48Z")
hi, i’m using SliceHost as my hoster and running Ubuntu 6.10 on it, but got a problem when i’m trying to get more than one rails app running on my box. basically i’ve used capistrano + deprec to deploy the first one, works fine and no problems there, deployed the second one and that looks ok via capistrano, however got confused with the settings in my apache httpd.conf file and the two app.conf files, hope you can help? first off i followed the guide, [http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=multiple\_rails\_apps\_on\_one\_slice](http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=multiple_rails_apps_on_one_slice) to get the second rails app on the box, used… cap deprec\_setup cap deploy\_with\_migrations that went fine and managed to get subversion working for the source repositories, good. now onto the setting files, in the first apps, deploy.rb set :apache\_proxy\_port, 8000 second app has, set :apache\_proxy\_port, 9000 so both are using different port addresses, now onto the mongrel cluster settings, /etc/mongrel\_cluster/firstapp.yml cwd: /var/www/apps/first/current port: “8000” environment: production address: 127.0.0.1 pid\_file: log/mongrel.pid servers: 2 /etc/mongrel\_cluster/secondapp.yml cwd: /var/www/apps/second/current port: “9000” environment: production address: 127.0.0.1 pid\_file: log/mongrel.pid servers: 2 now in the apache app configs, /usr/local/apache2/conf/apps/firstapp.conf \ ServerName [firstapp.com](http://firstapp.com) ServerAlias [www.firstapp.com](http://www.firstapp.com) DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/first/current/public \ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all # Configure mongrel\_cluster \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8001](http://127.0.0.1:8001) and… /usr/local/apache2/conf/apps/secondapp.conf \ ServerName [secondapp.com](http://secondapp.com) ServerAlias [www.secondapp.com](http://www.secondapp.com) DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/second/current/public \ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all # Configure mongrel\_cluster \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:9000](http://127.0.0.1:9000) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:9001](http://127.0.0.1:9001) …in my /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf i’ve stated the servername [ip address] ServerName 208.75.85.16 …but not the port :8080 and :80 at the end, should I ? plus these extra bits at the end, Listen 80 Listen 8080 Include conf/apps/ NameVirtualHost \*:80 NameVirtualHost \*:8080 the dns has an A record relating the [first.com](http://first.com) \> 208.75.85.16 and the second to [second.com](http://second.com) \> 208.75.85.16 however after rebooting both the mongrel clusters with /first/cap restart\_mongrel\_cluster /second/cap restart\_mongrel\_cluster /second/cap restart\_apache …the domain name for the second app is still pointing to the first app, e.g. [www.first.com](http://www.first.com) \> firstapp [www.second.com](http://www.second.com) \> firstapp any ideas what i’ve missed in my settings? really totally dumbfounded & desperate for help, (will buy beer for answers?) ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-2-rails-apps-running-on-a-server/112315/2 "2007-08-19T03:16:21Z")
Hey John I have a similar setup SliceHost, ubuntu, and what not. And I remember having the same problem when trying to host two applications. Looking over your set up and comparing it to mine. Your vhost conf files are different than mine. My httpd-vhost.conf file is located in usr/local/apache2/conf/extra and is as follows. NameVirtualHost \*:80 \ ServerName [www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com) ServerAlias [mydomain.com](http://mydomain.com) DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/myapp1/current/public ``` Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all # Configure mongrel_cluster BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:9000 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:9001 RewriteEngine On # Prevent access to .svn directories RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L] ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden" # Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L] # Rewrite index to check for static RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://scoop_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} ``` [P,QSA,L] ``` # Deflate AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html ErrorLog logs/ip.address-error_log CustomLog logs/ip.address-access_log combined ``` \ ServerName [www.mydomain2.com](http://www.mydomain2.com) ServerAlias [mydomain2.com](http://mydomain2.com) DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/secondapp/current/public ``` Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all # Configure mongrel_cluster BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8001 RewriteEngine On # Prevent access to .svn directories RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L] ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden" # Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !maintenance.html RewriteRule ^.*$ /system/maintenance.html [L] # Rewrite index to check for static RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://firstapp_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} ``` [P,QSA,L] ``` # Deflate AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html ErrorLog logs/ipaddress-error_log CustomLog logs/ipaddress-access_log combined ``` I don’t know if that helps. I am pretty rough at the whole deployment process. But I do know that this setup is working for me at the moment on Slicehost. So it might be worth a try. kirk out On Aug 17, 4:20 am, John G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-2-rails-apps-running-on-a-server/112315/3 "2007-08-19T09:03:45Z")
Change the virtual host for the second app to listen on port 80 instead of 8080, or put :8080 at the end the URL and you should be good to go. All your virtual servers can listen on 80 as long as your Mongrels are running on separate higher numbered ports. Shane On 8/17/07, John G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > however got confused with the settings in my apache httpd.conf file and > > port: “8000” > environment: production > ServerName [firstapp.com](http://firstapp.com) > BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000) > DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/second/current/public > > plus these extra bits at the end, > > > – [http://shanesbrain.net](http://shanesbrain.net) [http://five.sentenc.es/](http://five.sentenc.es/) ---
**Author:** ![softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@softf5ajivanet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/softf5ajivanet)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2007, 11:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-2-rails-apps-running-on-a-server/112315/4 "2007-08-19T11:03:59Z")
Excellent work, you two! Going to try this out, was always told to put in an extra port to listen in apache, didn’t know the two apps could use the same but just divide their mongrel addresses.