diment at gmail
Jul 12, 2009, 12:54 AM
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On 12/07/2009, at 5:29 PM, Mihai Bazon wrote:
> Kieren Diment <diment [at] gmail> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/07/2009, at 4:35 PM, Mihai Bazon wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I think this was raised before but I don't remember to have seen a
>>> satisfactory answer. Someone please point me into the right
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> I want to deploy a Catalyst app that will be used to serve multiple
>>> websites. The platform will be Apache2 (prefork) + mod_perl2. I
>>> want
>>> Catalyst to read a different configuration file, based on the host
>>> name.
>>> Each virtual host will have its own database (configured in .conf)
>>> and
>>> its own "root" directory, but other than this, all the Perl modules
>>> are
>>> the same.
>>>
>>> I know this can be done with FastCGI by launching a different
>>> process
>>> for each host, but I'm interested in a mod_perl solution. Is it
>>> feasible?
>>
>>
>> One of the limitations of mod_perl is that you can't run the same app
>> more than once on the same server. Sorry.
>
> Let me clarify that. I don't want to run the app more than once. I
> just want the application to switch configuration file and database
> depending on the hostname that each particular request targets.
>
> I've done this a zillion times with plain mod_perl, I just don't know
> what's the proper route with Catalyst.
Possibly to pick up some particular config that's chosen on the basis
of the value of $c->req->host?
$c->config( host_config => {example.com => [qw/foo bar/],
superbad.com => [qw/
fred wilma/}
Or if you need something more dynamic, put some configuration grabbing
routine in auto in Controller::Root.
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