Managing Cloud Web runtime software applications

Last updated 27th July 2022

Objective

With a Cloud Web hosting plan, you can choose from a range of different coding languages to build your project. To complete your project successfully, you may need to use a particular runtime environment.

Find out how to manage runtime environments in a Cloud Web hosting plan.

Requirements

• a Cloud Web hosting plan
• access to the Web Cloud section of the OVHcloud Control Panel

Instructions

With Cloud Web, you can pick from one or more runtime environments that are best adapted to your project. The runtime environment you choose will depend on the kind of project you want to set up.

So if you have not done so yet, please ensure that your project is compatible with your Cloud Web hosting plan. The available coding languages are listed here: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-hosting/cloud-web-offer/.

Once you have chosen the exact runtime environments you will use, you can start following the steps below.

Step 1: Access the runtime environment management interface.

To access your Cloud Web hosting plan’s runtime environments, log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel. Click Web hosting in the services bar on the left-hand side, then choose the name of the Cloud Web hosting plan concerned. Next, go to the Runtime environments tab.

The table that appears will list the runtime environments currently added to your Cloud Web hosting plan. Please note that a runtime environment will be created automatically when you set up your web hosting plan.

Step 2: Manage runtime environments.

There are several different ways you can manage the runtime environments on your Cloud Web hosting plan:

• add or modify a runtime environment (the maximum number of runtime environments will vary depending on the plan you have selected)
• define a runtime environment as a default choice
• delete a runtime environment

2.1 Add or modify a runtime environment.

To add or modify a runtime environment, go to the Runtime environment tab of the Cloud Web hosting plan concerned. Then:

• if you want to add a runtime environment, click Actions above the table, then Add a runtime environment
• if you want to modify a runtime environment, click on the ...button to the right of the environment concerned, then {.action}Modify.

Enter the information requested in the pop-up window. Follow the remaining steps depending on the runtime environment you have selected:

• PHP
• Node.js
• Ruby
• Python

PHP

Information	Description
Custom name	Enter a name that will distinguish this runtime environment from any other environments in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Runtime environment	Choose the new runtime environment you want.

Once you have entered this information, click Confirm. Please ensure that this runtime environment is definitely used by the multi-sites you want. To do this, continue to step three: Link your runtime environment to a multisite.

Node.js

Information	Description
Custom name	Enter a name that will distinguish this runtime environment from any other environments in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Runtime environment	Choose the new runtime environment you want.
Access path to public directory	Specify the directory in which static content will be hosted (the runtime environment will not run this content).
Application environment	Specify whether it is a "production", "test" or "development" environment. Please keep in mind that development environments behave differently from production and test environments, displaying errors directly in the web interface.
Application launch script	Name the script that will call the Node.js technology.

Once you have entered this information, click Confirm. Please ensure that this runtime environment is definitely used by the multi-sites you want. To do this, continue to step three: Link your runtime environment to a multisite.

Ruby

Information	Description
Custom name	Enter a name that will distinguish this runtime environment from any other environments in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Runtime environment	Choose the new runtime environment you want.
Access path to public directory	Specify the directory in which static content will be hosted (the runtime environment will not run this content).
Application environment	Specify whether it is a "production", "test" or "development" environment. Please keep in mind that development environments behave differently from production and test environments, displaying errors directly in the web interface.
Application launch script	Name the script that will call the Ruby runtime environment.

Once you have entered this information, click Confirm. Please ensure that this runtime environment is definitely used by the multi-sites you want. To do this, continue to step three: Link your runtime environment to a multisite.

Python

Information	Description
Custom name	Enter a name that will distinguish this runtime environment from any other environments in the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Runtime environment	Choose the new runtime environment you want.
Access path to public directory	Specify the directory in which static content will be hosted (the runtime environment will not run this content).
Application environment	Specify whether it is a "production", "test" or "development" environment. Please keep in mind that development environments behave differently from production and test environments, displaying errors directly in the web interface.
Application launch script	Name the script that will call the Python runtime environment.

Once you have entered this information, click Confirm. Please ensure that this runtime environment is definitely used by the multi-sites you want. To do this, continue to step three: Link your runtime environment to a multisite.

Step 3: Link the runtime environment to a multi-site.

Once you have the runtime environments you need for your project, make sure they are linked to your multi-sites. To do this, go to the Multi-site tab of the Cloud Web hosting plan concerned.

In the table, check if the displayed runtime environment is correct for the domains concerned in the Runtime software column. The names displayed correspond to the "custom name" you have defined.

If you want to modify a runtime environment associated with a multi-site, click on the cogwheel icon to the right of the domain concerned, and click Modify.

Then select the environment next to Runtime environment in the pop-up window. As a reminder, the names displayed correspond to the "custom name" you have defined. The website or application accessible from the domain concerned must be compatible with the runtime environment you have chosen.

Once you have selected it, follow the remaining steps.

Go further

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