Dreamwidth Install with Virtual Hosts?

[texasmath]

A bit of background - I run a website serving a small but dedicated education community. I was running Ubuntu 8.04 and was successfully running a webserver hosting the website, phpbb forum, wiki, and a livejournal (using apache-perl on a different port) client for our group. My computer crashed during a bad rainstorm, and I took this opportunity to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04. I've been able to restore the website, wiki, and phpbb forum, but wanted to get dreamwidth on, so I wouldn't have to use a different port.

Using the Scratch Installation, I can get dreamwidth exclusively to run correctly by using the "stage" file, but I lose all my other services (wiki/forum/other web pages.)

When I try to implement these commands in my virtual host, I run into a lot of issues.

My Virtual host block looks like this:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName example.org
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.org/
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName www.example.org
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.org
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName wiki.example.org
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.org/wiki
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log common
    Redirect permanent / http://www.example.org/wiki
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName forum.example.org
    Redirect permanent / http://www.example.org/forum/
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example.org/forum/
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    PerlOptions +Clone
    ServerName journal.example.org
    DocumentRoot /home/dw/htdocs
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.org
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.org_log common
    PerlSetEnv LJHOME /home/dw
    SetEnv LJHOME /home/dw
    PerlPassEnv LJHOME
    SetHandler perl-script
#    PerlConfigRequire /home/dw/cgi-bin/modperl.pl
</VirtualHost>

This allow my webserver to serve all the pages, but doesn't render the bml correctly. When I uncomment the PerlConfigureRequire, I get the following error:


* Restarting web server apache2 Use of uninitialized value $LJ::HOME in concatenation (.) or string at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/Config.pm line 74.
Use of uninitialized value $LJ::HOME in concatenation (.) or string at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/Config.pm line 74.
Use of uninitialized value $LJ::HOME in concatenation (.) or string at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/Config.pm line 74.
Use of uninitialized value $LJ::HOME in concatenation (.) or string at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/Config.pm line 74.
Syntax error on line 92 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:
Base class package "CSS::Cleaner" is empty.\n (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first,\n or make that module available in @INC (@INC contains: /src/s2 /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ /home/dw/cgi-bin /cgi-bin /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . /etc/apache2).\n at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/CSS/Cleaner.pm line 20\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/CSS/Cleaner.pm line 20.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/HTMLCleaner.pm line 8.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/HTMLCleaner.pm line 8.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/S2.pm line 26.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/S2.pm line 26.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/S2.pm line 22.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/LJ/LJ/S2.pm line 22.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/Apache/LiveJournal.pm line 26.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/Apache/LiveJournal.pm line 26.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/modperl_subs.pl line 31.\nBEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/dw/cgi-bin/modperl_subs.pl line 31.\nCompilation failed in require at /home/dw/cgi-bin/modperl.pl line 49.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1.\n
[fail]




For the record, /home/dw/cgi-bin/CSS/Cleaner.pm exists, and is the same as this.

I know that virtual hosts are "discouraged" because the dreamwidth code can be memory and processor intensive, but this same system was able to handle 20-30 user accounts for our group.

Can anyone give me a clue how to tweak my virtual host to render the bml correctly?

I appreciate all the help you can offer!

TDP.

Comments

[sophie]

I don't believe the code has ever been amenable to virtual hosting; the code expects to be on its own server. It actually tries to insert its own configuration directives dynamically, which might be the cause of the problem.

The way I get it working on the Dreamhack machine is a bit hacky. I have Perlbal set up to handle each request, and it directs the request to the appropriate Apache, which are all listening on different ports on localhost. That way it *looks* like they're all part of the same server, but they're not. (It also allows people to stop and start their Apaches individually, which is very important for a 'hack.)

Talking of Dreamhacks, by the way, I received your application for one on the 6th and set it up two days later, but I notice you haven't logged into it - and given this post, I'm wondering if you received the welcome email?