1.0.5.2 Mongrel

To deploy your site using mogrel, you will be required to install the ruby gem mongrel and mongrel_cluster.

$ gem install mongrel

$ gem install mongrel_cluster

 To set up your site with Mongrel you will have to complete the fallowing steps:

1- you will have to Modify your httpd.conf. Add a proxy balancer and a virtual host:

       To add a proxy balancer, you must give a name for the proxy balancer, specify the port
       that it will use and you must define it before the virtual host definitions in your httpd.conf file.

Proxy balancer://your_mongrel_cluster>
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000/
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8051/
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8052/
</Proxy>

Note: you can define as many balance members as you want. we recommend to use 3 and
this could be incremented if you notice that your site is slow.

Add a virtual host with the fallowing sctructure:

<VirtualHost YourIpAddress>
    ServerAlias www.YourDomain.com  YourDmain.com
    ServerAdmin Developers/Getting_Started/Deploying_RawConnect/webmaster@YourDomain.com
    DocumentRoot YourPpath
    ServerName www.YourDomain.com
    ErrorLog logs/YourDomain-error_log
    CustomLog logs/YourDomain-access_log common
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^/([^.]+)$ balancer://your_mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
   <IfModule !mod_disable_suexec.c>
         SuexecUserGroup  YourUser YourGroup
    </IfModule>
   <Directory YourPath >
      AllowOverride All
      Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

httpd.conf Ex. for mongrel_cluster and Virtual Host:

          mongrel_cluster:myraw_cluster
          domain: myraw
          ip: 192.168.1.1
          user: test
          group: test

 Proxy balancer://myraw_cluster>
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000/
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8051/
      BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8052/
</Proxy>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.1>
    ServerAlias wwwmyraw.com myraw.com
    ServerAdmin Developers/Getting_Started/Deploying_RawConnect/webmaster@myraw.com
    DocumentRoot /home/test/public_html/rawconnect/public/
    ServerName www.myraw.com
    ErrorLog logs/myraw.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/myraw.com-access_log common
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^/([^.]+)$ balancer://myraw_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
   <IfModule !mod_disable_suexec.c>
         SuexecUserGroup  test test
    </IfModule>
   <Directory /home/test/public_html/rawconnect/public/>
      AllowOverride All
      Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks -Multiviews
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

After setting up the Virtual Host in httpd.conf file you must restart your apache service. you can restart your apache service writing this code from your terminal:

$ service httpd restart

Note: you must modify the httpd.conf as a root user.

2-The next step is to  create the mongrel_cluster.yml. To create this file you will have write this command in from your terminal :

$cd /home/youruser/public_html/rawconnect

$ mongrel_rails cluster::configure

This instruction will create the file config/mongrel_cluster.yml

You must edit this file to look like this:

---
user: test
cwd: /home/test/public_html/rawconnect/
log_file: log/mongrel.log
port: "8000"
environment: production
group: test
address: 127.0.0.1
pid_file: tmp/pids/mongrel.pid
servers: 3

Note: you must run the mongrel commands from the rawconnect home directory with the correspondent user, you should not run this as a root user.

3-After you have modify your httpd.conf and you create the mongrel_cluster.yml, you can run mongrel from your terminal. write this code in your terminal.

         $ cd /home/YourUser/public_html/rawconnect

         $ mongrel_rails cluster::start --clean

Note: you can check the log files at logs  log/mongrel*.log

if you need to stop your mongrel, you can do it writing this from your terminal:

  $ mongrel_rails cluster::stop --clean

     or you can also restart your mongrel

$ mongrel_rails cluster::restart --clean

Note: you must run the mongrel commands from the rawconnect home directory with the correspondent user, you should not run this as a root user.