Bizarre lighttpd problem

Rails
1

I have code the works fine in webrick but when I use lighttpd it won’t
save anything to my database. I had run into something similar before
which I traced back to a print statement in my code. That’s not the
case here though. Here is output from firebug:

WORKS (webrick)
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:49:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
Server: WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/1.8.4/2005-12-24)
Content-Length: 165
Set-Cookie: _session_id=05f05d72373a31ff76cbf0645d419618; path=/

DOES NOT WORK (lighttpd)
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: _session_id=36fa39df475fe2c6f2ddc5128076e478; path=/
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:01:18 GMT
Server: lighttpd

Similar stuff, eh? Here is my controller code. Like I said, it’s not
saving to my mysql database when I use lighttpd but it does on webrick.

class MusiclikesController < ApplicationController

def liketune
@likemusic = Musiclike.new
@likemusic.music_id=params[:music_id]
@likemusic.vote_ip=params[:vote_ip]
@likemusic.save
end

end

It’s driving me nuts! Any lighttpd users run into this?

2

I’ve made some progress and tracked it down to the fact that lighttpd
does not capture the IP address correctly.

This code:

<%= @ip = request.remote_host %>

gives me back the IP address in webrick but does not return anything in
lighttpd

Is there a universal, web-server independent method to capture IP
address?

Thanks…

3

Vince W. wrote:

I’ve made some progress and tracked it down to the fact that lighttpd
does not capture the IP address correctly.

This code:

<%= @ip = request.remote_host %>

gives me back the IP address in webrick but does not return anything in
lighttpd

Is there a universal, web-server independent method to capture IP
address?

Ok, got it done with:

<%= @ip = request.env[“REMOTE_ADDR”] %>

Thanks…

4

Thanks for the post. I will want to use this for logging in my app.
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