Matt,
Saturday, April 7, 2012, 1:43:46 PM, you wrote:
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On Friday, 6 April 2012 15:53:13 UTC-4, RalphShnelvar wrote: I am inheriting a legacy PHP website and I want to add a few Rails pages. Is there anyone who can recommend some info on how to add RoR to a PHP-driven website? Ralph Shnelvar Depends on what you mean by "PHP-driven" - if it's doing its own URL rewriting (Wordpress's clean URLs, for instance) you're probably best served putting the Rails stuff on a subdomain or in a subdirectory. On the other hand, if it's a plain PHP site where URLs just end in .php everywhere, you can do some mod_rewrite magic (tune the paths as appropriate): RewriteCond /home/web/public_html/%{REQUEST_URI} -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /home/web/public_html/$1 [QSA,L] RewriteCond /home/web/public_html/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*) /home/web/public_html/$1/index.php [QSA,L] Then point your DocumentRoot to the public dir in your Rails app, as Passenger's instructions indicate, and add this: <Directory /home/web/public_html> PassengerEngine off </Directory> to the Apache config as well, to avoid confusing Passenger with stuff in PHP-land. The result will be that any incoming URL which matches either an actual PHP file, or a directory with an index.php file will be handled by PHP, while everything else goes to the Rails app. One other thing - for additional integration, you may want to access the PHP session from the Rails app. (Going the other way is NOT recommended, as you'd need to be able to un-Marshal Ruby objects in PHP) To do this, you'll need a gem like php-serialize (https://github.com/jqr/php-serialize) and you'll need to find where your particular PHP installation stores session data - sometimes this is in /tmp, sometimes elsewhere. The files are typically named after the session token (found in "cookies['PHPSESSID']" in your controllers). PHP does some locking to avoid multiple writers messing the whole thing up, but I've only ever needed to *read* from the PHP session, so I'm not sure exactly how that works. Hope this helps! --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/FAV9sfY553sJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. |
This is way over my head although I have some glimpses of understanding.
I thank you for taking the time to write all this tuff. I'll save it and cogitate when I know a lot more.
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Best regards,
Ralph mailto:[email protected]
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