Rails - May 2006 - phpbb forum with rails application.

I would like to knock up a phpbb forum with a rails application.
I wanted to do this as I want to use ActiveRecord to crawl through the 
user database in the rails app.

Is there a way to do this - on the same domain name and server...

Or does it depend how the server is setup?

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I think it depends on how the server was setup. Are you using shared hosting
or do you have a dedicated server and what is the setup for rails and for
php on your server?  I did something like this before - where I had a php
app and rails app sharing the same database. What I did was...

-setup apache with mod_proxy and php and use it to serve the php files as
normal.
-setup lighttpd to run the rails app on a higher port
-setup apache virtual hosts to proxy requests to the rails app or directly
serve the php pages depending on the url.


cheers,

AF

On 5/30/06, Ken Kam <kenkam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would like to knock up a phpbb forum with a rails application.
> I wanted to do this as I want to use ActiveRecord to crawl through the
> user database in the rails app.
>
> Is there a way to do this - on the same domain name and server...
>
> Or does it depend how the server is setup?
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Okay, I see what you mean now.

I wasn''t entirely sure but I think I understand that there are several 
ways to go around this, one of them is your method. Another one would be 
to declare several fastcgi.server in lighttpd for different subdomains.

I just read up on reverse proxying with Apache (I haven''t done anything
like this before) and it seems I can do a ProxyPassReverse and point 
/foo/ to a subdomain that has been setup (presumebly a virtual host 
which points to the lighttpd server?) - which solves the problem of not 
wanting a subdomain. Am I on the right lines?

Also, wouldn''t it be easier if one declares all those in the lighttpd 
config? How would I host it on lighty, again, without subdomains? Would 
it be proxying again (with lighty, of course)?

Many thanks.

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i just finished integrating this and it took some time.  Someone here on the
list wrote up a really nice page on the wiki about it which helped a great
deal. I spent a good deal of time working with sessions mostly.  What i
ended up doing was making my sessions table the phpbb sessions table
(phpbb_sessions) and making the session_id cookie the same as phpbb for
rails and phpbb so that if i logged into my rails app i was already logged
into the forum, and vice versa. I then setup a before_filter in
application.rb to check for, say a phpbb cookie to then load the session
data like this

.......
  elsif cookies[:fscookie_sid] && session[:user].nil?
       sess = Session.find_by_session_id(cookies[:fscookie_sid], :include =>
"user")

       if sess && sess.session_user_id > 1

        session[:user] = Hash.new
        session[:user] = sess.user.attributes

        session[:zip] = session[:user]["zipcode"]
        setlocation(session[:zip]) && setdeflocation if session[:zip]

        session.model.session_user_id = sess.user.user_id
        session.model.session_ip = encode_ip
        session.model.session_time = Time.now
        session.model.session_logged_in = 1

       elsif sess && sess.session_user_id == 0
         session.model.session_user_id = 1
       end

     end

One thing I did notice is that for some reason the default value of
''1''
wasnt being used in the database, so I had to manually set the user_id to 1
if it was a "guest" user.  Still havent figured out why.

If you need any more help you can find me on the rails webchat at
http://www.railswebchat.com

adam
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On 5/30/06, Ken Kam <kenkam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I see what you mean now.
>
> I wasn''t entirely sure but I think I understand that there are
several
> ways to go around this, one of them is your method. Another one would be
> to declare several fastcgi.server in lighttpd for different subdomains.
>
> I just read up on reverse proxying with Apache (I haven''t done
anything
> like this before) and it seems I can do a ProxyPassReverse and point
> /foo/ to a subdomain that has been setup (presumebly a virtual host
> which points to the lighttpd server?) - which solves the problem of not
> wanting a subdomain. Am I on the right lines?
>
> Also, wouldn''t it be easier if one declares all those in the
lighttpd
> config? How would I host it on lighty, again, without subdomains? Would
> it be proxying again (with lighty, of course)?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
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