Franken-php-rails-apache-stein

Every wondered about the possibility of running a rails app, and a php (or anything else for that matter) site together, on one virtual host, on apache. But why? the hordes screamed ... DHH keels over ... the PHP community says ahh just put it in CakePHP... and to you it feels just plain *wrong*. However, there is always that odd need, every now and then, that you have to do it. So here's how. It's really simple, assuming you're using mongrel cluster and setup a balancer in Apache for it, like so in one of the conf files... <Proxy balancer://mybalancer.rowanhick.com> BalancerMember http://localhost:2000 BalancerMember http://localhost:2001 BalancerMember http://localhost:2002 </Proxy> Then on the paths that you want to mash up with your vhost, it's as simple as this... For specific file mapping to an action: ProxyPass /some_path/some_file balancer://mybalancer.rowanhick.com/mycontroller/myaction ProxyPassReverse /some_path/some_file balancer://mybalancer.rowanhick.com/mycontroller/myaction ProxyPreserveHost On For one path mapping to a controller: ProxyPass /some_path/ balancer://mybalancer.rowanhick.com/mycontroller/ ProxyPassReverse /some_path/ balancer://mybalancer.rowanhick.com/mycontroller/ ProxyPreserveHost On Restart and you're away. (even if it feels dirty)