John Henderson wrote:
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currently i have 2 mongrels running as follows:-
my main app on port 80 at www.myapp.com
my forums app on port 81 at www.myapp.com
rather than giving out the URL www.myapp,com:81 for my forums, I would
like to use www.myapp.com/forums and have this redirect invisibly to
www.my.com:81
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I'd suggest putting a web server with load balancing and proxying support in front of your mongrels such as Apache or Lighty. Then use the prefix feature of mongrel to bind app2 to /forums/.
--R
John Henderson wrote:
thanks Randall - i have lighty installed but i'm not sure how to 'put in in front' of the two mongrels...
presumably i start the 2 mongrels on some higher port numbers, say 8100 and 8101.
then run lighty on port 80.
then do i not then need to tell lighty to bind /forums/ to the 2nd mongrel?
(or something like that....)
cheers,
-john
You do need to tell Lighty where to find the mongrels it's forwarding to. Look into the documentation for Lighty's mod_proxy for the syntax.
Using your example; you want to forward / to your primary app at http://localhost:8100 and forward /forums/ to http:localhost:8101.
When you start the mongrel(s) for the forum application you need to be sure to pass the --prefix=/<name> option (e.g. mongrel_rails start --prefix=/forums -e production -d ) otherwise, your link_to, button_to et. al. will get confused and keep trying to send you back to app1.
--R