Thanks, Charles. That's how we were planning on handling the DNS. What I don't think your approach doesn't address for us is partioning the app (db, config, roots, resources) to isolate the impact on performance and data migration. True?
J On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Charles Brian Quinn wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
