Rails - May 2005 - multiple rails apps in a lighttpd vhost environment

Hi all,

I have one lighttpd server running about 30 domains via mod_simple_vhost
and now I want to add multiple rails apps to one of the domains.  I''ve
done some trial and error experimenting and the following config is what
seems to be working for me.  Is this the best way to do it?  It seems
before too long that the configuration is going to get out of hand.

In the ''server.document-root'' directory ''ls
-n'' shows:

    lrwx------  1 1000  67   18 May  2 22:11 hieraki -> ../hieraki/public/
    -rw-r--r--  1 1000  67  201 May  2 21:23 index.html
    lrwx------  1 1000  67   15 May  2 22:06 typo -> ../typo/public/

The relevant portions of my lighttpd.conf file are:

    $HTTP["host"] == "demo.example.com" {
        server.document-root =
"/var/www/vhosts/demo.example.com/htdocs/"
        server.indexfiles = ("dispatch.fcgi","index.html")

        $HTTP["url"] =~ "typo" {
            server.error-handler-404   = "/typo/dispatch.fcgi"
            fastcgi.server = (".fcgi" => 
                                ("typo" => 
                                  (       
                                    "socket" =>
"/tmp/typo-1.socket",
                                    "bin-path" =>
"/var/www/vhosts/demo.example.com/typo/public/dispatch.fcgi",
                                    "bin-environment" =>
("RAILS_ENV"=> "production")
                                  )       
                                )       
                             )       
        }

        $HTTP["url"] =~ "hieraki" {
            server.error-handler-404   = "/hieraki/dispatch.fcgi"
            fastcgi.server = (".fcgi" => 
                                ("hieraki" => 
                                  (       
                                    "socket" =>
"/tmp/hieraki-1.socket",
                                    "bin-path" =>
"/var/www/vhosts/demo.example.com/hieraki/public/dispatch.fcgi",
                                    "bin-environment" =>
("RAILS_ENV"=> "production")
                                  )       
                                )       
                            )       
        } 
    }


    $HTTP["host"] != "demo.example.com" {

        simple-vhost.server-root         = "/var/www/vhosts/"
        simple-vhost.default-host        = "www.example.com"
        simple-vhost.document-root       = "/htdocs/"
    }

Comments, improvements, ideas, etc are welcome.  In general I''m looking
for solutions in which multiple domains can each have multiple rails
apps underneath them using lighttpd.  Whatever the results I''ll put up
a
wiki page on the configuration so others can learn too.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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======================================================================= Jeremy
Hinegardner                             
jeremy-eg9WJcVQRd1EMKyauTCisw@public.gmane.org