Digitalocean - More than one application running on the same droplet? - ruby-on-rails

Question

Is it possible to run more than one Rails application on the same DigitalOcean droplet?

Answer 1

I recommend looking into using Dokku with Docker, which allows you to host applications along side each other. Digital Ocean has a One-click install available. I just started using it and deploying this way, and so far really like it.
Here are some links:
http://reallybusywizards.com/dokku-digitalocean-your-very-own-cheap-heroku-clone/
https://www.andrewmunsell.com/blog/dokku-tutorial-digital-ocean
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-dokku-one-click-digitalocean-image-to-run-a-node-js-app

Answer 2

Yes you can do this, you just need to configure your application server, I have done this using nginx, is very quiet.
This tutorial is pretty cool to start with the server installer and rails application using Nginx server application:
Tutorial DigitalOcean
After doing this, open the configuration file for nginx:
sudo nano /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
Now just add another block to configure a new application on another port, the default port is always 80. Enter note that port 8080 in this block.
server {
listen 8080;
server_name example.com;
passenger_enabled on;
root /var/www/my_new_rails_app/public;
}
Hope this helps!

Answer 3

YES
I am doing this currently. If your using Apache then in your httpd.conf file simply make two entries pointing to the public folders of two different application. Remember to identify different address for each.
I use phusion-passenger to make rails run with apache and my setup looks like this;
<VirtualHost ####################.com:80>
ServerName ####################.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/first_app/current/public/
<Directory /var/www/html/first_app/current/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
PassengerEnabled on
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.####################.com%{REQUEST_URI}
SetEnv GEM_HOME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost second_app.####################.com:80>
ServerName second_app.####################.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/second_app/current/public/
<Directory /var/www/html/second_app/current/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
PassengerEnabled on
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
#RewriteRule (.*) https://www.####################.com%{REQUEST_URI}
SetEnv GEM_HOME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
</VirtualHost>

Answer 4

I had similar problem but #Leandro Figueredo answers didn't work for me.
Below i presenting what i do to achieve this.
Actually i have two website on one droplet.
I configured my server with this tutorial: GoRails How to setup server with Ubuntu 14.04 and nginx
After this configure file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env production;
root /home/user/appname/current/public;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name second_site.com www.second_site.com;
passenger_enabled on;
root /home/user/second_app/current/public;
}
Important:
remove default_server; from first server block