On 12/13/2012 10:42 AM, Shuvam Misra wrote: > I too was wondering what would I do if I took a browser-based app like RT > and needed to run multi-tenant setups on a single physical server. One > option is of course virtualisation, but another could be just running an > Apache with multiple virtualhost setups. Can one install multiple copies > of RT in multiple directories, and make them connect to the same PG or > MySQL database server but use various different databases? So, in short, > we will have one Apache daemon listening on five different domains using > its VirtualHost feature, then redirecting accesses to five different > physical copies of RT running on five different port numbers and storing > their config files etc in five different directories. And at the > back-end, all five RT instances would talk to the same database server on > the same database port number, but would connect to five different > databases. > > Will this work?
Yup, works great. That's essentially what we do. You'll want a mod_fcgid, mod_fastcgi, or reverse proxy deployment. You can't use mod_perl to run multiple copies of RT because of the global Perl interpreter state. -------- We're hiring! http://bestpractical.com/jobs
