How do I run two copies of the same app under two different names?

[Phillip Trautmann]

Setup

in the .puma-dev path I created a symlink to platform A with the name test. Then I cloned the very same repo in another directory and created a subdirectory where I put the symlink.

Problem

The server I try to access first, will be started and accessed, while the other symlink uses the very same one. Is this a wished for behaviour?

At first I thought the problem lays in the subdirectory and similar naming of the application, but this wasn't the case.

Example symlinks

lrwxr-xr-x   1 my_name  staff    30  6 Nov 14:49 test -> /Users/my_name/my_company/app_a
lrwxr-xr-x   1 my_name  staff    30  6 Nov 14:49 foo -> /Users/my_name/app_a

Url's

https://test.test
https://foo.test

Is there a way to modify this behaviour or did I simply miss something?

[Alan Norton]

I guess the reason for this would be to run two versions (edge and stable) at the same time?

The workaround to support running two copies of the same app would be to clone them to directories of different names. The canonical App name is the name of the directory.

Doing something like

# clone to diff directory names, not subdirectories
git clone https://host/app_a.git ~/app_a_edge
git clone https://host/app_a.git ~/my_company/app_a

# symlinks
lrwxr-xr-x   1 my_name  staff    30  6 Nov 14:49 stable -> /Users/my_name/my_company/app_a
lrwxr-xr-x   1 my_name  staff    30  6 Nov 14:49 edge -> /Users/my_name/app_a_edge

would allow you to then access stable.test and edge.test.