On Oct 8, 2008, at 01:10 , Josh French wrote:
I'm working on a pair of sites for a client that will be on two
subdomains and hosted on a shared host (Dreamhost). I thought the
multi-site extension would be ideal for that but have not yet figured
out how to do this under Phusion Passenger, the preferred Rails
deployment method at DH.
To allow mod_rewrite, add this to your apache conf:
RailsAllowModRewrite on
SInce we're talking Dreamhost here... editing apache.conf can't be
done (unless they provide some kind of smart Dreamhostish workaround
for it that I am unaware of). Not even with the Dreamhost PS (Private
Server) service you have root access to your server.
Passenger's issue with mod_rewrite is that the default .htaccess
supplied with Rails tries to funnel all requests through one of the
dispatchers, so be sure to remove either the entire .htaccess file
from /public, or remove everything but those parts you know you need
(e.g. static caching, as Jay Levitt mentioned.)
However, we've successfully served multiple subdomains without
resorting to mod_rewrite by defining each subdomain from within the
multisite extension -- main.tld and sub.main.tld, both being served
from a single Radiant instance. Is that your use case? Your question
implies you've got a dev or preview domain that may need additional
http authentication -- that's also possible, but I don't want to
confuse the issue if that's not your scenario.
From one thing to another. A couple of questions occurred to me:
Does using the multisite extension provide any benefit when it comes
to performance, when using mod_rails? Or does it just affect how you
maintain the site?
And the same thing about this: Does deploying several 'unpacked'
Radiant installations performancewise have any downsides as opposed to
using Radiant as a gem (sharing more code in between the
installations), here too using mod_rails. I guess the same kind of
logic applies for using Rails from the vendor-directory vs. not doing
that, too.
cheers, Simon
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