Rails - Jun 2006 - Running the same application multiple times with different enevironments

Hi!

I have an application that needs to be run on multiple virtual hosts 
(Apache2) with each instance having it''s own environment / database. 
Using dispatch.cgi I simply configure two virtual hosts pointing to the 
same application path and just add a "SetEnv RAILS_ENV 
<environment_name>" to each virtual host section in the Apache 
configuration. But with FastCGI / dispatch.fcgi this doesn''t work.

Any ideas how to run multiple instances (each having a different 
database) of the same application with Apache and FastCGI?

Regards,

Tobias

Tobias Grimm wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have an application that needs to be run on multiple virtual hosts
> (Apache2) with each instance having it''s own environment /
database.
> Using dispatch.cgi I simply configure two virtual hosts pointing to the
> same application path and just add a "SetEnv RAILS_ENV
> <environment_name>" to each virtual host section in the Apache
> configuration. But with FastCGI / dispatch.fcgi this doesn''t work.
> 
> Any ideas how to run multiple instances (each having a different
> database) of the same application with Apache and FastCGI?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tobias
I am doing something similar, but with lighttpd.  Rails automatically 
handles different environments with different databases.  Just set them 
up in database.yml.

The basic config looks like:

  $HTTP["host"] == "www.mydomain.com" {
	server.document-root = "/home/mydomain/public/"
	fastcgi.server = (
        ".fcgi" =>
          ( "localhost" =>
            (
              "socket" => 
"/home/lighttpd/var/run/lighttpd-fcgi-mwprod.socket",
              "bin-path" =>
"/home/magneticworld/public/dispatch.fcgi",
              "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"production" ),
							"max-load-per-proc" => 25,
							"min-procs" => 1,
							"max-procs" => 4,
							"idle-timeout" => 30
            )
          )
        )
  }


  $HTTP["host"] == "dev.mydomain.com" {
	server.document-root = "/home/mydomain/public/"
	fastcgi.server = (
        ".fcgi" =>
          ( "localhost" =>
            (
              "socket" => 
"/home/lighttpd/var/run/lighttpd-fcgi-mwdev.socket",
              "bin-path" =>
"/home/magneticworld/public/dispatch.fcgi",
              "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"development" ),
							"max-load-per-proc" => 25,
							"min-procs" => 1,
							"max-procs" => 4,
							"idle-timeout" => 30
            )
          )
        )
  }

2 sites, 2 environments, 2 dbs, running from the same root.

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Alex Wayne wrote:
>2 sites, 2 environments, 2 dbs, running from the same root.
>  
>
Thanks! That''s exactly what I want to do. It''s just, that I
want to do
it with Apache2. It seems I can''t set different fcgi servers with
different environments for each virtual host in Apache.

No Apache-Rails-Guru around?

Tobias