Last Updated on November 29, 2016 by admin
My development server is on a home LAN behind a firewall, and I don’t want to make it a DNS sub-domain. I have directed my router to issue fixed IP addresses through DHCP, so I can use the IP address as part of the URL.
Setting up multiple Rails applications is pretty easy, but if you want to mix the Rails environments (developement / test / production / custom), you need to use <Directory>
to configure each Rails app:
<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/public <Directory /var/www/public/RailsApp1> RailsEnv development RailsBaseURI /RailsApp1 </Directory> <Directory /var/www/public/RailsApp2> RailsEnv production RailsBaseURI /RailsApp2 </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/localhost-error_log PassengerPoolIdleTime 0 <Directory /var/www/public/RailsApp1/blog> AllowOverride All PassengerEnabled off </Directory> </VirtualHost>
By using <Directory> you can change the behavior of each of your Rails applications as needed, including the ability to disable Passenger for non-Rails code (such as the blog shown in the example).