Hide port 16080 after redirect

Rails
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I have a couple of sites running on a Mac OsX server using fcgi
(Apache 1.3 on Panther). Works fine until my app creates a redirect
(for example: after create, redirect to list). Then the url of my name
based virtual host shows :16080. I found a good explanation of port
16080, virtual hosting, and web performance caching on
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106407 They even
mention potential oddness after redirects - but don’t say how to fix
it. Is there something I can do in my apache or (more likely) in my
rails configuration that will hide the pesky port number from end
users? Perhaps something that sets a canonical url for the app?

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Cynthia K.
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On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:42 PM, Cynthia K. wrote:

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Cynthia K.
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Cynthia-

Here is an apache vhost that you can use to proxy to webrick or

lighttpd on a higher port that will keep the port number hidden. I am
assuming you are running webrick(script/server) for your actual rails
app and just using apache in front to be on port 80?

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ProxyPass / http://example.com:8000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://example.com:8000/

Change example.com to your site’s name and change 8000 to the port
you are running your rails app on and you should be good to go!

Cheers-

-Ezra Z.
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