Fame, glory, and a lot of appreciation would shower upon anyone who can
indicate how to use mongrel with apache2, to get multiple public apps on
one host, without DNS or IP tweaking, etc.
To be concrete, let’s say we’re trying to expose the following sites
http://host.com/app_one
http://host.com/app_two
using Rails, Mongrel, and Apache2. It should be assumed that the person
doing the work has root access (is able to edit httpd.conf, to restart
the web server, etc.), but does not have the ability to alter IP or
DNS information. For reasons whose details are irrelevant, two other
requirements are that the site has to be exposed to the outside world
(127.0.0.1 is not sufficient) and that commercial hosting is not a
solution.
Apology: I know that I am asking a question that has been asked before.
However, I’ve been unable to uncover a proposed solution that was
reported by the questioner to work. For reference, some threads on the
topic include:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/2a596862bc96c6df/c183ce496bc873c9?lnk=gst&q=multiple+application&rnum=4#c183ce496bc873c9
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/c2d1e47e2db4ed8a/4fa4b83aee8f9764#4fa4b83aee8f9764
Michael W. wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/2a596862bc96c6df/c183ce496bc873c9?lnk=gst&q=multiple+application&rnum=4#c183ce496bc873c9
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/c2d1e47e2db4ed8a/4fa4b83aee8f9764#4fa4b83aee8f9764
Is there a reason why the solution I posted in my message in the second
thread above does not work for you? If you are having problems with
images in a CSS stylesheet you’ll need something like this:
OSX apache2 final-stage setup hints? - Rails - Ruby-Forum
The problem is that I don’t get images. (Actually, at the moment, I
don’t even get a site, unless I use 127.0.0.1, but I’ve taken several
steps backward lately, so if I can just get images I’ll be happier!)
I start mongrel with the command
mongrel_rails start -d -p 8010 -a 127.0.0.1 -e development --prefix
/LSCbc
and my http.conf contains as below.
# DEK 20070429 start
Alias /LSCbc "/Users/kelley/Sites/LSCbc/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/stylesheets !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/javascripts !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
#ProxyPass /LSCbc/images http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc/images
ProxyPass /LSCbc http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
ProxyPassReverse /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
# DEK 20070429 end
and the result is that images (used by my stylesheet) do not show up.
They are called as follows, in my public/stylesheets/style.css file:
background: url('/images/headerlogo.png') bottom left no-repeat
transparent;
Dan K. wrote:
don’t even get a site, unless I use 127.0.0.1, but I’ve taken several
ProxyPass /LSCbc/stylesheets !
background: url('/images/headerlogo.png') bottom left no-repeat
transparent;
Well you have a problem cause you have a generic “/images” directory
reference and multiple apps that can point to it. You have to resolve
the ambiguity somehow.
One way is as described in my link above which you almost have correct
but not quite:
ProxyPass /images http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc/images
but then you would have to stick all your stylesheet images from all
your apps into the LSCbc images directory.
Another way is to put the app in the images path in the stylesheets and
setup ProxyPass that way (like the way you have commented out), i.e.:
background: url(‘/LSCbc/images/headerlogo.png’) bottom left no-repeat
–
Michael W.
Michael W. wrote:
Another way is to put the app in the images path in the stylesheets and
setup ProxyPass that way (like the way you have commented out), i.e.:
background: url(‘/LSCbc/images/headerlogo.png’) bottom left no-repeat
Michael, this is an excellent solution for me, since I’m hoping to have
each app provide its own images.
I’m not clear on the ProxyPass, though. I find that the site works for
me, whether I use
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images !
or
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc/images
and so I’m wondering whether I should use the former or the latter. (My
impression was that the former is better for speed.)
I’m transferring now from my laptop to another machine that’s turned on
all the time, but now I have a new difficulty: I can access all the
pages through 127.0.0.1, but not through the proxy. Through the proxy,
I can access only the page pointed at in my config/routes.rb file.
Other pages give an error
no route found to match "books/list" with {:method=>:get}
(FYI, this is a site for a book club, hence the name.)
My httpd.conf lines are:
# DEK 20070430 start
Alias /LSCbc "/Users/kelley/Sites/LSCbc/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass /LSCbc/public/images !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/public/stylesheets !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/public/javascripts !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
ProxyPass /LSCbc http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
ProxyPassReverse /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
# DEK 20070430 end
PS. I realize this is a bit of a different issue, but it’s connected by
the use of ProxyPass, I guess, so that’s my excuse 
Dan K. wrote:
PS. I realize this is a bit of a different issue, but it's connected by
the use of ProxyPass, I guess, so that's my excuse :-)
How are you launching Mongrel and what does the “books/list” URL look
like in the source HTML?
–
Michael W.
Dan K. wrote:
me, whether I use
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images !
or
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc/images
and so I’m wondering whether I should use the former or the latter. (My
impression was that the former is better for speed.)
Yes the former is better for speed since you are having Apache serve
those static files instead of Mongrel but that only works if you have an
Alias or other path mapping setup to that directory (which you do). I.e.
the “!” means to not proxy URLs that match the specified path.
–
Michael W.
Michael W. wrote:
How are you launching Mongrel
I start Mongrel as:
mongrel_rails start -d -p 8010 -a 127.0.0.1 -e development --prefix
/LSCbc
and what does the “books/list” URL look
like in the source HTML?
The RoR code is as follows, from my app/views/shared:
<%
l = ['welcome','books'] # tab title
c = ['welcome','books'] # controller
a = ['index','list'] # method
n = 2
%>
<% n.times do |i| %>
<%= link_to l[i], :controller => c[i], :action => a[i]%>
<% end %>
and the resultant HTML is e.g.
welcome
books
For context: the scheme works when I'm pointing at 127.0.0.1/LSCbc but
not if the browser is pointed at http://localhost/LSCbc/ ... as a
reminder, I have apache2 and my httpd.conf contains the following. (
# DEK 20070429 start
Alias /LSCbc "/Users/kelley/Sites/LSCbc/public"
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ProxyPass /LSCbc/images !
#ProxyPass /LSCbc/images http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc/images
ProxyPass /LSCbc/stylesheets !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/javascripts !
ProxyPass /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
ProxyPass /LSCbc http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
ProxyPassReverse /LSCbc/ http://127.0.0.1:8010/LSCbc
# DEK 20070429 end
And, a final symptom the stylesheet/images do not work with the
httpd.conf as below, when I point at localhost, but they do when I point
at 127.etc. To get the stylesheet/images, I have to say e.g.
ProxyPass /LSC/public/images
PS. I’ve stated more than requested here, based on the assumption that
it’s easier to spot problems in a self-contained entry than in a long
thread.
Thanks. Dan.