I’m running lighttpd + fastcgi + rails
Say that the lighttpd root directory is the rails application /public
directory.
I’m just curious.
If theres a file in the document root with the same name as a
controller,
does the file get served first?
How does that work? Does lighttpd check the root directory first to see
if
the file exists- If not, it calls dispatch.fcgi? I want to know if the
rails app is called in any way if i’m just serving static files that are
in
the /public directory- such as images and text files.
On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Vincent G. wrote:
text files.
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Vincent-
The way dispatch.fcgi works is that it is assigned to be the error
handler in the lighty.conf file./ So lighty first checks public for
files that match the url and serves them directly without invoking
rails if they exist. If they don’t exist then a 404 error is raised
and sent to dispatch.fcgi for rails to sort out.
This liine in your lighttpd.conf file is what looks for fo.html if
the url is /foo
url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html", "^([^.]+)$" =>
“$1.html” )
So the short answer is yes, if you put .html files in the public dir
or any subdir in public it will get served by lighty without ever
invoking rails.
Cheers-
-Ezra
hmm… those lines are commented out in my conf file.