Hi Zed, Thanks for your answers. Actually, in my example, I meant having e.g. 10 virtual domains (=10 applications) that are handled by a pool of say 4 mongrels. But from your first answer I understand that this is not a wise choice. I need a minimum of 1 mongrel per application.
Thanks, Mike --- Zed Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Answers below... > > > On 4/9/06 7:27 AM, "Mike M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Question: Is it possible to run several applications using a single mongrel > > instance? > > > Probably not the very best idea really. I believe there's some hacks out > there that will make Rails do this, but I've found that mixing Rails with > anything--even other rails apps--in the same Ruby process is pure death. > > My thinking is that if you really wanted to support it then you'd have to > somehow have a small Mongrel handler that caught the Host: header and routed > to different URLs based on that. If you're going to do this then I'd > recommend using mod_rewrite in Apache or Lighttpd. > > > Background: > > I want to set up several low-traffic sites on one server. I now have this > > configuration: > > > > Apache virtual-host for domain1 > > -> proxy to mongrel instance 1 on port 3000 > > > > Apache virtual-host for domain2 > > -> proxy to mongrel instance 2 on port 3001 > > > > etc etc. > > > > Ideally, I'd like a pool of say 4 mongrel instances to serve all the > > applications. > > > > Now, this will work. I know of several people who do this with Apache and > Lighttpd. Main thing is to put the Proxy configurations inside the Vhost > configs so that when people request domain1 they are proxied back to port > 3000, and so on. If your sites are really low traffic then one Mongrel for > each site should be good enough. > > If you want to have many Mongrel servers as backends easily via Apache I > recommend you use http://www.inlab.de/balance.html and have it listen on > port 3000 and then proxy to as many as you want. In your case you'd run two > balance servers: one for port 3001 and another for port 3000. > > Hope that helps. > > Zed > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
