NAME

Dancer::Plugin::Hosts - Config trigger for virtual sites

NOTES BEFORE

After this module has been written i found other way to make virtual hosts without this module. Please to see "OTHER WAY" section below

SYNOPSIS

This plugin doesn't have syntax commands. It has only configurable options in Dancer config file. It changes appdir & application settings by seeing in "Host:" HTTP header. For every site you can use different directories and application settings in one Dancer process (author tested from Starman + Dancer bundle). Also you can use your own signle 'App' module for some sites. Additional you can set any your own settings as Dancer::setting command does.

use Dancer;
use Dancer::Plugin::Hosts;

get '/' => sub {
    template 'foo';
};

dance;

CONFIGURATION

Example

    plugins:
        Hosts:
	    http://app1.foo.com:
		alias: http://www.app1.foo.com
		appdir: /foo-2/dir
		application: My::App1

	    http://app1.foo2.com:
		alias: http://www.app1.foo2.com
		appdir: /foo-2/dir
		public: /where/public/dir

		# 'confdir' will be as "$appdir" setting
		# 'views' will be as "$appdir/veiws"
		# 'public' will be as "/where/public/dir"

		# Here we use same module of application as in previous example
		application: My::App1

	    http://app2.foo.com:
		alias: http://www.app2.foo.com
		appdir: /foo-3/dir

		# Here no 'application'
		# so will be used 'main' App of Dancer

	    # Here site is located at 81th port
	    http://app3.foo.com:81:
		appdir: /foo-4/dir
		application: My::App3

PLUGIN OPTIONS

appdir

This option is required. If you have only one "appdir" setting for directory settings of one host site then other directory settings will be set to following values (as Dancer does itself):

confdir	-> appdir
public	-> appdir/public
views	-> appdir/views

application

This option is optional. If you will define it then the module after it will be loaded if need through Dancer::load_app command and all settings for this host will be set for this App settings. Otherwise application will be 'main' (Dancer no App default)

OTHER WAY

Example without using this module

Here the example: one module (App) for some sites.

Your lib/YourApp.pm should be as:

    package YourApp;

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Dancer ':syntax';

    setting apphandler => 'PSGI';

    Dancer::App->set_running_app('YourApp');

    # This and other routes ...
    get '/' => sub {
	# Static and template files will be from different directories are
	# based by host http header
	template 'index';
    };

    1;

Your bin/app.psgi should be as:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Dancer;

    # The next line can miss but need for quickly loading in L<Starman> server
    use YourApp;

    use Plack::Builder;

    # Please notice that here no need ports in url
    # So for http://app1.foo.com:3000/ will work
    # http://app1.foo.com/
    my $hosts = {
      'http://app1.foo.com/' => '/appdir/1',
      'http://app2.foo.com/' => '/appdir/2'
    };

    builder {
	my $last;
	foreach my $host (keys %$hosts) {
	    $last = mount $host => sub {
		my $env = shift;
		local $ENV{DANCER_APPDIR} = $hosts->{$host};
		load_app "YourApp";
		Dancer::App->set_running_app('YourApp');
		setting appdir => $hosts->{$host};
		Dancer::Config->load;
		my $request = Dancer::Request->new( env => $env );
		Dancer->dance($request);
	    };
	 }
	$last;
    };

AUTHOR

This module has been written by Perlover <perlover@perlover.com>

LICENSE

This module is free software and is published under the same terms as Perl itself.

SOURCE CODE

The source code for this module is hosted on GitHub http://github.com/Perlover/Dancer-Plugin-Hosts. Feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests!