# Apache rewrites with mongrel **URL:** \ **Category:** Mongrel\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-rewrites-with-mongrel/140571 "2008-06-16T11:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/der_guido)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-rewrites-with-mongrel/140571/1 "2008-06-16T11:47:23Z")
I´m knew to rewrites on apache in combination with mongrelcluster. It´s urgend for me, because the server has an loadaverage about 10 :-((((( Ok so I´m using 3 mongrel-server on an mongrelcluster. The Loadbalancer ist apache I think, that my rewrites are not correct. Please can anybody check my rewrites ? That´s in my /etc/apache2/conf.d/rails.proxy\_cluster.conf \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4712](http://127.0.0.1:4712) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4713](http://127.0.0.1:4713) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:4714](http://127.0.0.1:4714) that´s in my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-rails ``` RewriteEngine On # Deflate AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css ``` text/xml BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html ``` ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass /stylesheets ! ProxyPass /javascripts ! Alias /images /var/www/rails/myApp/current/public/images Alias /stylesheets ``` /var/www/rails/myApp/current/public/stylesheets Alias /javascripts /var/www/rails/myApp/current/public/javascripts ``` RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/rails-rewrite.log ``` And last not lease my .htaccess in public AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^01,([0-9]_).html$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster/shop/event/$1 [P,QSA,L] RewriteRule ^01,([a-zA-Z0-9]_),([0-9]+).html$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster/shop/search/$2?startnumber=$1 [P,L] RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] the rewrite for static-sites is correct? I saw this lines on a howto RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] if I call [www.myApp.com/shop](http://www.myApp.com/shop) (redirected internaly by globalize to en/shop ) then I`ll get the cached page under public/en/shop.html but when I call [www.myApp.com/shop](http://www.myApp.com/shop) again then I can see in my logfiles Processing ShopController#index (for xx.xxx.xxx.xx at 2008-06-16 11:46:04) [GET] Session ID: 4cbe53c829bdc7ef9ceb81cc6f0fe1fa Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“shop”, “locale”=\>“en”} Rendering template within layouts/shop Rendering shop/index Completed in 0.17766 (5 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.09954 (56%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://www.myApp.com/en/shop/](http://www.myApp.com/en/shop/)] I think something went wrong with my rewrites. thanks for helping. cheers guido ---
**Author:** ![der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/der_guido)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-rewrites-with-mongrel/140571/2 "2008-06-16T12:07:23Z")
why do you need rewrites at all? just point your document root to the rails public dir and these ProxyPass settings should be enough ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass /stylesheets ! ProxyPass /javascripts ! ProxyPass / balancer://mongrelcluster/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mongrelcluster/ – Freundliche Grüße,Ralf V. o L\_ OL This is Schäuble. Copy Schäuble into your signature to help him on his way to Überwachungsstaat Am 16.06.2008 um 11:47 schrieb Guido Holz: ---
**Author:** ![der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/der_guido)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-rewrites-with-mongrel/140571/3 "2008-06-16T12:27:14Z")
uff… I saw this on an turorial… but something went wrong… know I have no time to cahnge and try out what´s right ☹ So what handles the cached static-html-sites on your proxypasses?!? is this realy enough? another question is the difference between RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] and RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] do I need the first or the second one?!? thanks guido neongrau \_\_ wrote: > why do you need rewrites at all? > > just point your document root to the rails public dir > and these ProxyPass settings should be enough > > ProxyPass /images ! > ProxyPass /stylesheets ! > ProxyPass /javascripts ! > ProxyPass / balancer://mongrelcluster/ > ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mongrelcluster/ > > – > Freundliche > Gr��e,Ralf V. > > o > L\_ > OL > > This is Sch�uble. > Copy Sch�uble into your signature > to help him on his way to �berwachungsstaat > > Am 16.06.2008 um 11:47 schrieb Guido Holz: ---
**Author:** ![der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@der\_guido](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/der_guido)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/apache-rewrites-with-mongrel/140571/4 "2008-06-16T13:01:46Z")
the dispatch.cgi thing was meant for fastcgi setups without mongels, but noone is using that anymore. i don’t think you need any rewrites at all. by pointing the document root to the public dir and the ProxyPass that end with “!” will make apache serve them statically without bothering your mongrels. everything else will then be directed to the cluster. here is an example container i’m using this is with windows authentication utilizing an active directory domain and injecting the authenticated user into the headers for further use within my app controller assets like images / stylesheets and javascripts get served directly and are also memcached and all text content getting gzip compressed which saves about 70% of traffic \ ServerName [someserver.domain.de](http://someserver.domain.de) DocumentRoot “C:/rails/public/” ErrorLog “C:/rails/log/balancer\_error.log” CacheEnable mem /images CacheEnable mem /stylesheets CacheEnable mem /javascripts CacheEnable mem /latest/images MCacheSize 64000000 MCacheMaxObjectCount 10000 MCacheMinObjectSize 1 MCacheMaxObjectSize 20480 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/ css application/json text/json application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript ProxyRequests Off ProxyVia On ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass /balancer ! ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass /stylesheets ! ProxyPass /javascripts ! ProxyPass / balancer://mongrelcluster/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mongrelcluster/ AuthName "Windows Authentication" AuthType SSPI SSPIAuth On SSPIAuthoritative On SSPIOfferSSPI On SSPIOfferBasic On SSPIBasicPreferred On SSPIPerRequestAuth On SSPIDomain somedomain Require valid-user ``` RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} (.+) RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1] RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{RU}e ``` \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3101](http://127.0.0.1:3101) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3102](http://127.0.0.1:3102) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3103](http://127.0.0.1:3103) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3104](http://127.0.0.1:3104) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3105](http://127.0.0.1:3105) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:3106](http://127.0.0.1:3106) \ SetHandler balancer-manager AuthName “Windows Authentication for Balancer” AuthType SSPI SSPIAuth on SSPIOfferSSPI on SSPIOfferBasic off SSPIBasicPreferred On SSPIUsernameCase lower SSPIDomain somedomain Require group “somedomain\domain admins” – Freundliche Grüße, Ralf V. o L\_ OL This is Schäuble. Copy Schäuble into your signature to help him on his way to Ãœberwachungsstaat Am 16.06.2008 um 12:27 schrieb Guido Holz: