And if this is the case, we just wrote something up on using this kind of "subdomain" auth as part of a key -- all one app, serving up different "content" / "dashboards" / "features":
http://cleanair.highgroove.com/articles/2006/08/14/simplied-subdomain-authentication-in-ruby-on-rails The key is a DNS wildcard record: *.yourdomain.com forwarded to the main web/app server and rules for handling what it does. I hope we didn't mangle your question too badly, On 9/7/06, Kirk Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/7/06, John Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can one host multiple domains with mongrel? Assuming you are mass > > vhosting and you also want the performance benefits of using mongrel ... > > If I remember right, you are looking at a situtation where you have a > single application that will have a different look and feel applied, > depending on the domain it is being served to, right? > > So couldn't you just set up your app to look at the SERVER_NAME and > choose the theme for the content appropriately? > > Then you just setup your Apache vhosts and feel all the traffic into > the same mongrel cluster, and you don't have to do anything at all at > the Mongrel level, right? You leave it to your app to be multidomain > aware? > > What am I missing? > > > Kirk Haines > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Charles Brian Quinn self-promotion: www.seebq.com highgroove studios: www.highgroove.com slingshot hosting: www.slingshothosting.com _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
