It’s possible to run discourse in multisite mode in development. A multisite server uses a different DB and hostname for each site that it serves. This is useful if you are developing a feature or a plugin that should be multisite compatible.
All you need to do is add an appropriate config/multisite.yml
file. i.e:
---
alternate:
adapter: postgresql
database: alternate
host_names:
- alternate.localhost
To run rake tasks against these extra sites, simply add the RAILS_DB
environment variable with the name of the site that you are targeting. To create and migrate your new site’s db:
RAILS_DB=alternate rake db:create
RAILS_DB=alternate rake db:migrate
Running rake tasks without RAILS_DB
set will target the default site.
You’ll need to run allow ember cli bypassing (since ember-cli doesn’t forward the host):
ALLOW_EMBER_CLI_PROXY_BYPASS=1 rails server
However, you’ll also need to run ember-cli, since it is used to generate assets.
You may now be able to view the your new site at http://alternate.localhost:3000, but if your cannot, you may need to add alternate.localhost
to your /etc/hosts
file or equivalent.