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Passenger sub-URIs allow you to run multiple Rails aplications under one Apache virtual host, which is great for development. Although Phusion has documented how to do this, I was having trouble. Eventually I got it to work, by doing the steps below:

1. The Apache default DocumentRoot location is /var/www/html. I created a new directory and changed DocumentRoot to /var/www/public
2. As root, cd /var/www/public. Add a link to each public directory of each Rails app to be accessed. On Linux, this looks like ln -s /somewhere/MyApp1/public MyApp1, where MyApp1 was created by running rails MyApp1 under the directory /somewhere
3. Modify the Apache httpd.conf file. DocumentRoot was changed as shown in Step 1. Then add a virtual host block:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName 192.168.1.3
       DocumentRoot /var/www/public
       RailsEnv development
       RailsBaseURI /MyApp1
       RailsBaseURI /MyApp2
       RailsBaseURI /MyApp3
       ErrorLog /var/log/localhost-error_log
   </VirtualHost>

   ServerName can also be localhost or www.mywebsite.com You can also use Apache’s Directory block to control permissions and the RailsEnv setting for each RailsBaseURI entry

4. Finally, add one of the next two lines to MyAppn/config/environment.rb:

   config.action_controller.asset_host = "192.168.1.3/MyAppn"
   or
   config.action_controller.relative_url_root = "/MyAppn"

   The IP address can also be localhost or www.mywebsite.com, whatever you used for ServerName