# How to specify alternate configuration in multisite
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [5월 10, 2017, 3:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441 "2017-05-10T15:24:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 11, 2017, 8:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441/21 "2017-05-11T20:11:28Z")
I hear you, and I want to change this, but I worry that somewhere hiding in our tooling there is something that depends on this not exploding and falling back to default. I am worried about making a behavior change here.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [5월 11, 2017, 8:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441/22 "2017-05-11T20:16:33Z")
Might be able to print a warning like “not found, using default” without breaking stuff.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 11, 2017, 8:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441/23 "2017-05-11T20:17:30Z")
Yeah that should be fairly simple to add … we need fix this in rails-multisite, so I will assign this to myself and get to it when I have some time.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11월 13, 2017, 5:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441/25 "2017-11-13T05:38:12Z")
No error on RAILS\_DB typo is fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/rails\_multisite/commit/10a282e5197538ee0717d47c8d1ade0c5341b6f3](https://github.com/discourse/rails_multisite/commit/10a282e5197538ee0717d47c8d1ade0c5341b6f3)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5427ca13b726d0639777803d3447043b93fbac2f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5427ca13b726d0639777803d3447043b93fbac2f)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [11월 13, 2017, 5:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-specify-alternate-configuration-in-multisite/62441/26 "2017-11-13T05:38:17Z")
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