Multiple Rails Apps in 1 Virtual Host on Apache 1.3

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After attempting this on my own using the Apache “Alias” directive I
noticed that it did not work in all cases:

http://myserver/app1/ (this worked)
http://myserver/app1 (this failed, I won’t bore you with the rewrite
logs of why)

This led me to the following article
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine

Which I followed.

Must to my sorrow I get the same behaviour as using “Alias”.

I found I can fix this using another rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^/app1$ /app1/ [r]

I would like to get this working without having to do the redirect, has
anybody else had this problem?

I am runnig Linux, apache 1.3 and the latest Rails version.

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:45:04PM +0100, Paul Barclay wrote:
} After attempting this on my own using the Apache “Alias” directive I
} noticed that it did not work in all cases:
}
} http://myserver/app1/ (this worked)
} http://myserver/app1 (this failed, I won’t bore you with the rewrite
} logs of why)
}
} This led me to the following article
}
Peak Obsession
}
} Which I followed.
}
} Must to my sorrow I get the same behaviour as using “Alias”.
}
} I found I can fix this using another rewrite rule:
}
} RewriteRule ^/app1$ /app1/ [r]
}
} I would like to get this working without having to do the redirect,
has
} anybody else had this problem?
}
} I am runnig Linux, apache 1.3 and the latest Rails version.

Actually, this is exactly what you should do. If you watch what
webservers
do when you ask for a directory without the terminal slash, it redirects
you to the URL with an appended slash. The redirect you are using is
right
and proper. Why don’t you like it?

–Greg

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No good reason really…

I just wanted to do it without the redirect to keep my superiors happy
as they felt the redirect was a bit clumsy.

Thanks for the feedback.