[rt-users] Two discrete instances of RT / same server

[Dave Dennis]

The install I'd be doing this on is mod_perl .

Does that affect the outcome or limits ?


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+ Dave Dennis
+ Seattle, WA
+ dmd at speakeasy.org
+ http://www.dmdennis.com
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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Bob Goldstein wrote:

>
> The easiest thing is to install RT multiple times, and
> associated each rt install with a different fcgi process.
> (And a different url or virtual host with each fcgi process.)
>
> I have a somewhat fancier setup, in which I only need
> a single RT install, but each fcgi process is passed
> an environmental variable (specificed in the apache config)
> that tells it where to look for the RT config file (and possible
> local overlays).
>
> This way, I can have multiple local configs (and gui changes,
> etc) while having only one install of the RT core files.
> Obviously these configs may or may not reference multiple mysql
> databases. I did this mostly so I could run one apache server and
> install RT once (with my own local mods that everyone must use) ,
> yet give out different RT instances to different departments on
> campus (each of which can be modified independently). As well, it
> would be easy for me to keep a local config, and upgrade RT, just
> mix and match.
>
> The downside is that it requires a small patch to a couple files,
> to read and act on the environment variable.  I had submitted
> this patch many months ago, but it didn't seem to be of
> general interest.  Ask me offline if you're interested in
> more details.
>
>    bobg
>
>
>
> >Dear List,
> >
> >In the interest of brevity does anybody have experience with
> >standing up two apache <VirtualHost> each having an instance
> >of RT running on the same server ?  We want to have a test-config
> >instance, as well as our existing running instance.
> >
> >Seems like the safest thing would be two separate mysql backends,
> >one running on a different port.  Is it possible instead to
> >run both out of the same mysql, but rename 'rt3' to something else ?
> >if we had a completely separate {RT} home dir and separate etc,
> >separate Site_Config.pm, all referred by a second apache ..
> >would things still break inside perl / mason somehow with shared
> >caches ?
> >
> >Let me know if this would be feasable.  If it is and nobody wrote a howto
> >yet I'd be willing to document steps taken and flush it out into a howto
> >that would be wiki-usable.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
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> >+ Dave Dennis
> >+ Seattle, WA
> >+ dmd at speakeasy.org
> >+ http://www.dmdennis.com
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