[rt-users] debian & multiple RT - sanity check

[Mark D. Nagel]

I've reviewed the archives and found a few threads discussing ways to 
have multiple RT instances using the Debian request-tracker package, but 
pretty much they all seem to indicate that your second instance must be 
non-packaged.  After looking through everything, it seems to me that I 
could get away with using the single package if I use FastCGI, create a 
copy of RT.pm with alternate paths as appropriate and make a copy of 
webmux.pl referencing this alternate RT.pm as well as a copy of 
mason_handler.fcgi referencing the webmux.pl copy.  Other than the fact 
that this now requires me to merge in changes in those particular files 
as I update the main package, does anyone see any particular problems 
going this route? 

Another idea I had that definitely needs a sanity check -- could it 
possibly work to create an RT_Local.pm with some logic that overrides 
the necessary variables based on the instance of the target server?  
Would it be reasonable to check $ENV{HTTP_HOST} or $ENV{SERVER_NAME} 
within RT_Local.pm to dynamically adjust those things that need to be 
changed for the specific instance?  I am assuming again that I'm using 
FastCGI, so I don't care if that solution isn't portable to mod_perl 
(which couldn't work anyway).

Thanks,
Mark

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