[Catalyst] Configuration based on hostname

[Kieren Diment]

On 12/07/2009, at 4:35 PM, Mihai Bazon wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I think this was raised before but I don't remember to have seen a
> satisfactory answer.  Someone please point me into the right  
> direction.
>
> I want to deploy a Catalyst app that will be used to serve multiple
> websites.  The platform will be Apache2 (prefork) + mod_perl2.  I want
> Catalyst to read a different configuration file, based on the host  
> name.
> Each virtual host will have its own database (configured in .conf) and
> its own "root" directory, but other than this, all the Perl modules  
> are
> the same.
>
> I know this can be done with FastCGI by launching a different process
> for each host, but I'm interested in a mod_perl solution.  Is it
> feasible?


One of the limitations of mod_perl is that you can't run the same app  
more than once on the same server.  Sorry.