# Apache, mongrel and slash in route variable **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [August 4, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929 "2008-08-04T13:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tracerek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929/1 "2008-08-04T13:50:14Z")
Hi, in my app i’m ussing this route mapping map.connect “:controller/:action/view/:file” where :file can have another slash inside (eg. /config/basics/view/some\_folder/another\_file) . While accesing this link in FF3 adress panel its shown like /config/basics/view/some\_folder%2Fanother\_file. Under mongrel it works well, but when I connect mongrel to apache it shows “Not Found” error page. I’m on windows, apache 2.2, using configuration of vrtual hosts: \ ServerName [yourdomain.com](http://yourdomain.com) DocumentRoot D:/myapp/public \ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all # Configure mongrel instances \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4001](http://127.0.0.1:4001) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4002](http://127.0.0.1:4002) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4003](http://127.0.0.1:4003) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4004](http://127.0.0.1:4004) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4005](http://127.0.0.1:4005) RewriteEngine On # Uncomment for rewrite debugging #RewriteLog logs/your\_app\_deflate\_log deflate #RewriteLogLevel 9 # Check for maintenance file and redirect all requests RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/system/maintenance.html -f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT\_FILENAME} !maintenance.html RewriteRule ^.\*$ /system/maintenance.html [L] # Rewrite index to check for static RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] # Deflate AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # Uncomment for deflate debugging #DeflateFilterNote Input input\_info #DeflateFilterNote Output output\_info #DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio\_info #LogFormat ‘“%r” %{output\_info}n/%{input\_info}n (%{ratio\_info}n%%)’ deflate #CustomLog logs/your\_app\_deflate\_log deflate ErrorLog logs/your\_app\_error\_log CustomLog logs/your\_access\_log combined I’ve just followed some tutorials with this configuration and in fact I really don’t know what I was doing there, so any help with that will be great. 🙂 I think I need to add some rule for mod\_rewrite, but for now I really know nothing about it. Is there any chance to get it working, or only way to do it is to rewrite my app to not using slashes in route variables? thanks ---
**Author:** ![tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tracerek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929/2 "2008-08-04T17:06:20Z")
You need to configure Apache to allow encoded slashes. By default, it does not allow them. [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes) – Doug Barth ---
**Author:** ![tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tracerek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929/3 "2008-08-04T17:21:44Z")
wow. Thank you very much, but I’m affraid it isn’t that simple… I’ve added it to my virtualhosts configuration: \ AllowEncodedSlashes On ServerName [yourdomain.com](http://yourdomain.com) . . . and now it shows Rails 404 instead of Apache 404… Any ideas? Doug Barth wrote: > You need to configure Apache to allow encoded slashes. By default, it > does not allow them. > > [core - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes) > > – > Doug Barth ---
**Author:** ![tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tracerek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929/4 "2008-08-04T18:12:37Z")
What error are you getting in your Rails log file? If it’s a routing error, you may need to specify that the :file portion of your route can contain pretty much anything. map.connect “:controller/:action/view/:file”, :requirements =\> {:file =\> /.\*/} – Doug Barth ---
**Author:** ![tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tracerek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tracerek)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-mongrel-and-slash-in-route-variable/144929/5 "2008-08-04T19:04:59Z")
Yop that was true. 🙂 This add screwed up this route map.connect “:controller/:action/edit/:file/:id”, :mode =\> “edit”, :requirements =\> {:file =\> /.\*/}, :file =\> nil, :id =\> nil But splitting it to map.connect “:controller/:action/edit/:id/:file”, :mode =\> “edit”, :requirements =\> {:file =\> /._/, :id =\> /\d+/}, :file =\> nil map.connect “:controller/:action/edit/:file”, :mode =\> “edit”, :requirements =\> {:file =\> /._/}, :file =\> nil has done the work, and now everything seems to work well. Once again, thank you very much for fast help. Doug Barth wrote: > What error are you getting in your Rails log file? If it’s a routing > error, you may need to specify that the :file portion of your route > can contain pretty much anything. > > map.connect “:controller/:action/view/:file”, :requirements =\> > {:file =\> /.\*/} > > – > Doug Barth