# Apache 2.0 \<=\> Pen \<=\> Mongrel problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [March 7, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-2-0-pen-mongrel-problems/88057 "2007-03-07T20:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tilthouse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tilthouse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tilthouse)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-2-0-pen-mongrel-problems/88057/1 "2007-03-07T20:45:48Z")
I have a Centos server that I would rather not upgrade to Apache 2.2 due to other sites in production (and the PITA that the upgrade appears to be). So, I’m using Apache 2.0 \<=\> Pen \<=\> 3 Mongrels 3 Mongrels on 11100-11102. Pen on 11180. (Aside: Pen vs. Pound? Opinions? Tradeoffs?) > From the command line on the server, I can see that that is working. > “lynx http:// > localhost:11180/events” gives me back a “Routing Error: no route > found > to match “/events” with {:method=\>:get}”. That’s correct – there is > no such route. The important thing is that it’s talking to a mongrel. It’s the Apache \<=\> Pen that I can’t get to work. Below is my entry in conf.d: (a few items replaced with [stuff] in brackets to protect the innocent… Any obvious issues? I can get to the static web page, but not the rails app… \ # RoR app #SetEnv RAILS\_ENV development SetEnv RAILS\_ENV production ServerName [fqdn of virtual host] ServerAlias [hostname of virtual host] DocumentRoot /home/boster/www/tilthouse/dev/rails/[app\_dir]/temp- deploy/public LogFormat “%h %l %u %t "%r" %\>s %b "%{Referer}i" "% {User-Agent}i"” CustomLog /home/boster/www/logs/[hostname].access\_log common ErrorLog /home/boster/www/logs/[hostname].error\_log \ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ProxyRequests Off \ Order deny,allow Allow from all ProxyPass / [http://localhost:11180/](http://localhost:11180/) ProxyPassReverse / [http://localhost:11180/](http://localhost:11180/) RewriteEngine On # Rewrite index to check for static # Letting rails handle the case with routes RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] # Expanded setup to only proxy rails pieces (not static pages) # Adapted from [http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-](http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-) July/000757.html RewriteCond $1 !images|errors|stylesheets|javascripts|files| favicon.ico|robots.txt # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster # XXX DON’T check the filesystem, as this is extremely slow for each # XXX request. Instead, rely on the patterns above. Add more if needed. #RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f # Pass everything else thru to mongrel cluster #RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] ---
**Author:** ![tilthouse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tilthouse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tilthouse)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-2-0-pen-mongrel-problems/88057/2 "2007-03-07T21:59:58Z")
On Mar 7, 2:44 pm, “tilthouse” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have a Centos server that I would rather not upgrade to Apache 2.2 > due to other sites in production (and the PITA that the upgrade > appears to be). So, I’m using Apache 2.0 \<=\> Pen \<=\> 3 Mongrels > > 3 Mongrels on 11100-11102. > Pen on 11180. > > (Aside: Pen vs. Pound? Opinions? Tradeoffs?) Sorry to answer indirectly, but I’ve used this exact configuration with Balance before. It was very simple, and very easy. > **[Balance :: Balance by Inlab Networks](https://balance.inlab.net)** > > Balance is our well known open source load balancing solution being a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover capabilities. Its behaviour can be easily controlled at runtime using a simple command line... – – Tom M. – CTO, Engine Y.