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Well, it was a pain in the ass, but I managed to get multiple Rails sites running with lighttpd on the same domain.

Check it out! colloboa install 1 and colloboa install 2. They’re running off collaboa, which is a rails app.

Here’s the interesting parts of the lighttpd.conf file that makes this magic shit work:

# needed for aliases to work
server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_alias" )

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/svn_browser/cisv" {
  server.document-root ="http://www.uuzone.com/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/cisv_collaboa/public/"
  alias.url = ( "/svn_browser/cisv" => "/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/cisv_collaboa/public" )
  server.error-handler-404 ="http://www.uuzone.com/svn_browser/cisv/dispatch.fcgi"
  server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi", "index.html" )

  fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
    ((
       "socket" => "/home/joevd/lighttpd/joevd_cisv_svn1.socket",
       "min-procs" => 1,
       "max-procs" => 1,
       "bin-path" =>  "/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/cisv_collaboa/public/dispatch.fcgi",
       "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "production" )
  )))
}

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/svn_browser/gamefest" {
  server.document-root ="http://www.uuzone.com/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/gamefest_collaboa/public/"
  alias.url = ( "/svn_browser/gamefest" => "/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/gamefest_collaboa/public" )
  server.error-handler-404 ="http://www.uuzone.com/svn_browser/gamefest/dispatch.fcgi"
  server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi", "index.html" )

  fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
    ((
       "socket" => "/home/joevd/lighttpd/joevd_gamefest_svn1.socket",
       "min-procs" => 1,
       "max-procs" => 1,
       "bin-path" =>  "/users/home/joevd/domains/joevandyk.com/gamefest_collaboa/public/dispatch.fcgi",
       "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" => "production" )
  )))
}

You also need to add the following to the app’s config/environment.rb file (at the very end):

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root ="http://www.uuzone.com/svn_browser/cisv"

It’s a royal pain, but it’s pretty cool once you got a working configuration.

more resource:

http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=7147&p=1

http://pinkpucker.net/articles/2006/01/31/getting-multiple-rails-sites-going-on-one-domain-using-lighttpd

http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2005/11/23/lighttpd-1-4-8-and-multiple-rails-apps

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