Mongrel users - Aug 2006 - New automated Capistrano setup for Apache2.1+ and mongrel_cluster

Hi mongrel users!

I just posted a bad-ass capistrano file that automates *everything*
for setting up an apache2+mod_proxy_balancer and
mongrel+mongrel_cluster -- including apache2 setups.  It''s based off
Coda Hale''s guide and all Bradley''s work at fluxura and
RailsMachine
(thanks Coda and Bradley!).

It''s, well, bad-ass, if I must say so myself.  My favorite part:

  (0..mongrel_servers-1).each { |server|
    apache2_rails_conf += "    BalancerMember
http://127.0.0.1:#{mongrel_start_port + server}\n"
  }

It''s on our newest Slingshot Hosting image, but you can download it
here:

http://www.slingshothosting.com/files/apache2_2_mongrel_deploy.rb

Deployment just got a whole lot easier.

And, is about to get even easier:

http://cleanair.highgroove.com/articles/2006/08/18/heartbeat-sneak-preview

-- 
Charles Brian Quinn
self-promotion: www.seebq.com
highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com
slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com


-- 
Charles Brian Quinn
self-promotion: www.seebq.com
highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com
slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com

Oh my fucking god, you have made my life so much better. Tweaking .conf
files was starting to drive me mad.

-Thomas Reynolds

On 8/18/06, Charles Brian Quinn <me at seebq.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi mongrel users!
>
> I just posted a bad-ass capistrano file that automates *everything*
> for setting up an apache2+mod_proxy_balancer and
> mongrel+mongrel_cluster -- including apache2 setups.  It''s based
off
> Coda Hale''s guide and all Bradley''s work at fluxura and
RailsMachine
> (thanks Coda and Bradley!).
>
> It''s, well, bad-ass, if I must say so myself.  My favorite part:
>
>   (0..mongrel_servers-1).each { |server|
>     apache2_rails_conf += "    BalancerMember
> http://127.0.0.1:#{mongrel_start_port + server}\n"
>   }
>
> It''s on our newest Slingshot Hosting image, but you can download
it here:
>
> http://www.slingshothosting.com/files/apache2_2_mongrel_deploy.rb
>
> Deployment just got a whole lot easier.
>
> And, is about to get even easier:
>
> http://cleanair.highgroove.com/articles/2006/08/18/heartbeat-sneak-preview
>
> --
> Charles Brian Quinn
> self-promotion: www.seebq.com
> highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com
> slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com
>
>
> --
> Charles Brian Quinn
> self-promotion: www.seebq.com
> highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com
> slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:43 -0400, Charles Brian Quinn
wrote:
> Hi mongrel users!
> 
> I just posted a bad-ass capistrano file that automates *everything*
> for setting up an apache2+mod_proxy_balancer and
> mongrel+mongrel_cluster -- including apache2 setups.  It''s based
off
> Coda Hale''s guide and all Bradley''s work at fluxura and
RailsMachine
> (thanks Coda and Bradley!).
Cool, did you make sure it runs with the latest pre-release?  That''s
coming down as the official release very soon, as soon as I route out or
rule out a bug.  The main change for your stuff is that it''s better to
specify the log and pid file paths as absolute paths just to make sure
they get set right.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support?

On 8/18/06, Zed Shaw <zedshaw at zedshaw.com>
wrote:
> Cool, did you make sure it runs with the latest pre-release? 
That''s
> coming down as the official release very soon, as soon as I route out or
> rule out a bug.  The main change for your stuff is that it''s
better to
> specify the log and pid file paths as absolute paths just to make sure
> they get set right.
I just updated my script, and made it work with the new mongrel
pre-release.  It has options to specify the prefix as a capistrano
setting.

It''s totally improved and tried and tested to be able to run multiple
mongrel_clusters on multiple vhosts simultaneously (and takes care of
all ports).  Some things to note that I forgot to mention last time:

You''ll need to have a line in your apache2 that says:

Include /etc/rails/*.conf

to pickup all the conf files for the multiple mongrel_clusters you''re
running

You''ll also want to have the line:

NameVirtualHost *:80

to be able to serve up all your different named virtualhost servers
for each app.

Also one more thing, I put the amazingly feature-barren proxy-balancer
manager on mongrel_start_port + 81, which ends up being 8081, so
another cluster on 8100 would put it on port 8181.  Just FYI.  It
could be configurable one day too, though.

Newest version is here again:

http://www.slingshothosting.com/files/apache2_2_mongrel_deploy.rb

p.s. Zed I sent you some Apache2 best practices documents for the
mongrel site.  Did you receive them?  Should I post the webgen files
on rubyforge, or just submit a patch to current mongrel svn?

p.p.s. a crazy mongrel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassi007/211404555/

-- 
Charles Brian Quinn
self-promotion: www.seebq.com
highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com
slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com