Webbynode Forum » Installation & Configuration

1. 

   dcrowder32
   

   offline

   Member

   This post shows you how to install/run multiple Rails applications in different subdomains. As always, use these instructions at your own risk and backup everything before.

   Assumptions:

   1. Running the Rails ReadyStack - Ubuntu 8.10, Apache2, Passenger
   2. Your web server is running with document root at /var/www
   3. Your Rails apps are in /var/rails
   4. Your domain is yourdomain.com. Obviously, change it to yours where needed.
   
   

   Procedure:

   Create the first app:
   

   1. Go to the rails directory
      cd /var/rails
   2. Make a new rails app in /var/rails
      rails app1
   3. Delete the default index file
      rm app1/public/index.html
   4. Go to the web server root directory
      cd /var/www
   5. Make symbolic links to the app
      ln -s /var/rails/app1/public one
   6. Go to the Apache config directory
      cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
   7. Create file for app
      touch one
   8. Put the following into the file with the editor of your choice
      <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName one.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/rails/app1/public
</VirtualHost>

   9. Enable the app.
      a2ensite one
      This creates a symbolic in sites-enabled to this file.
   
   

   Create the second app:
   

   1. Go to the rails directory
      cd /var/rails
   2. Make a new rails app in /var/rails
      rails app2
   3. Delete the default index file
      rm app2/public/index.html
   4. Go to the web server root directory
      cd /var/www
   5. Make symbolic links to the app
      ln -s /var/rails/app2/public two
   6. Go to the Apache config directory
      cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
   7. Create file for app
      touch two
   8. Put the following into the file with the editor of your choice
      <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName two.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/rails/app2/public
</VirtualHost>

   9. Enable the app.
      a2ensite two
      This creates a symbolic in sites-enabled to this file.
   
   

   Restart Apache:

2. /etc/init.d/apache2 reload or /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Disable the default app?

3. a2dissite default

Update the DNS settings of your webby account:


1. Login to webbynode manager
2. Select the 'DNS' tab
3. Select your domain (or 'New zone' button to create it if it does not exist)
4. Click the 'New record' button
5. Set 'Type' to "A"
6. 'Name' to "one"
7. 'Data' to the IP address of your webby
8. Leave 'Auxillary Data' and 'TTL' at the defaults.
9. Click the 'Save record' button
10. Click the 'New record' button
11. Set 'Type' to "A"
12. 'Name' to "two"
13. 'Data' to the IP address of your webby
14. Leave 'Auxillary Data' and 'TTL' at the defaults.
15. Click the 'Save record' button



That is pretty much it. Work on your apps and browse to them at one.yourdomain.com and two.yourdomain.com.