# Fwd: Kubuntu, Apache 2.2, Mongrel, Mongrel Cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548 "2006-07-24T01:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/1 "2006-07-24T01:42:20Z")
Good suggestion, thanks. Also found a small error (lack of a cd command). The following is the entire notes: # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #Starting notes # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #get some necessary packages before beginning #some are used to build ruby, some are required #for gems that will be installed/built later sudo wajig install build-essential libssl-dev ssl-cert libssl0.9.8 openssl slapd ldap-utils libldap2 imagemagick libmagick9 libmagick9-dev libldap2-dev memcached zlib1g zlib1g-dev #dowload apache2.2 source and extract #in apache2.2 source dir #apache 2.2 configure ./configure --prefix=/etc/apache2 --enable-cache --enable-mem-cache –enable-deflate --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-html –enable-proxy-balancer –enable-rewrite make sudo make install #download Ruby source #edit ext/Setup to look like: # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #begin ext/Setup # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ option nodynamic #Win32API bigdecimal curses dbm digest digest/md5 digest/rmd160 digest/sha1 digest/sha2 #dl etc enumerator fcntl #gdbm iconv #io/wait nkf #pty openssl racc/cparse readline #sdbm socket stringio strscan syck syslog #tcltklib #tk #win32ole zlib # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #end ext/Setup # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #in ruby source dir ./configure make sudo make install #dowload ruby gems source, tar -xvzf ruby-source #in ruby source dir ruby setup.rb #if you receive permission error on creating directories, manually create them gem install rails --include-dependencies gem install daemons gem\_plugin mongrel mongrel\_cluster sendfile –include-dependencies gem install rmagick postgres-pr memcache-client vim-ruby pdf\_writer –include-dependencies #In your rails app dir #create the config/mongrel\_cluster.yml #-e : environment (production, development (default)) #-p : port #-a : address (using localhost) #-N : number of clients #-c : work dir (should be RAILS\_ROOT dir of application) mongrel\_rails cluster::configure -e development -p 8000 -a 127.0.0.1 -N 2 -c /var/www/\ #configure mongrel cluster as system service cd /etc/init.d sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel\_cluster-0.2.0/resources/mongrel\_cluster mongrel\_cluster sudo chmod +x mongrel\_cluster sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d mongrel\_cluster defaults #fyi: to remove #sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d mongrel\_cluster remove cd /etc sudo mkdir mongrel\_cluster cd mongrel\_cluster sudo ln -s /var/www//config/mongrel\_cluster.yml \.yml #apache configuration sudo cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.orig sudo vi httpd.conf #change DocumentRoot defining htdocs #DocumentRoot “/var/www” #change Directory defining htdocs #Directory “/var/www”\> #create a common configuration that applies to all apps sudo vi /etc/apache2/conf/common.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #begin common.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UseCanonicalName Off ServerSignature On \ Options FollowSymLinks Allow from all # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #end common.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #vhost definition cd /etc/apache2/conf/extra sudo cp httpd-vhosts.conf httpd-vhosts.conf.orig sudo vi httpd-vhost.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #begin httpd-vhosts.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NameVirtualHost \*:80 \ ServerAdmin \ [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ServerName \.com DocumentRoot /var/www/\/public ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/\\_error\_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/\\_access\_log combined \/public\> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass /stylesheets ! ProxyPass /javascripts ! ProxyPass /favicon.ico ! ProxyPass / balancer://\\_cluster ProxyPreserveHost On \\_cluster\> BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8001](http://127.0.0.1:8001) RewriteEngine On # Uncomment for rewrite debugging #RewriteLog /var/log/apache2/\\_rewrite\_log #RewriteLogLevel 9 # 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://\\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] # Deflate AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css 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 /var/log/apache2/\\_deflate\_log deflate # ~~~~~~~~~~~ #end httpd-vhosts.conf # ~~~~~~~~~~~ cd /etc/apache2/conf sudo vi httpd.conf #first line under Supplemental configuration #include your common.conf Includ conf/common.conf #enable vhosts in /etc/apache2/conf/httpd.conf #uncomment the following Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf #start/stop by using sudo /etc/apache2/bin/apachectl (start|stop) # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #ending notes # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I really hope this formats okay… ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/2 "2006-08-05T08:17:49Z")
good work… ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/3 "2006-08-05T10:06:58Z")
I think the rewrite rules will never be used here… I have run tests and it appears that cached contents are served by Mongrel instead of Apache with such a configuration. You should use either proxy pass exceptions (! rules), or rewrite. But I might be wrong… Proxy pass exceptions are faster for everything that is in the excluded directories, but they just forward everything else to Mongrel, including cached content… But once more, I can be totally wrong… ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/4 "2006-10-30T14:35:45Z")
My httpd.conf is almost the same as above,however my log shows that the mod\_deflate does not take into effect. I have mentioned this topic at : [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86475](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86475) ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/5 "2006-10-31T16:14:40Z")
ethan wrote: > My httpd.conf is almost the same as above,however my log shows that the > mod\_deflate does not take into effect. I have mentioned this topic at : > [Apache2 mod\_deflate does not work - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86475) I guess the original config as follows stop mod\_deflate from compressing the javascripts,stylesheets,etc for IE BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html Therefore the above three sentences should be commented. ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/6 "2006-11-07T10:47:09Z")
I think there is a typo, it has been corrected on several guides: BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only should read: BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only Also, I’m hoping your line got truncated as I did on the mongrel apache2 guide here: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css That should all be one line. On 10/30/06, ethan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My httpd.conf is almost the same as above,however my log shows that the > mod\_deflate does not take into effect. I have mentioned this topic at : > [Apache2 mod\_deflate does not work - Rails - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/86475) > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > – Charles Brian Q. self-promotion: [www.seebq.com](http://www.seebq.com) highgroove studios: [www.highgroove.com](http://www.highgroove.com) slingshot hosting: [www.slingshothosting.com](http://www.slingshothosting.com) ---
**Author:** ![starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@starmaerker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/starmaerker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fwd-kubuntu-apache-2-2-mongrel-mongrel-cluster/99548/7 "2006-11-12T16:20:07Z")
On 7/24/06, Andrew S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > sudo vi httpd.conf > #change DocumentRoot defining htdocs > #DocumentRoot “/var/www” > #change Directory defining htdocs > #Directory “/var/www”\> > what do you mean by #Directory “/var/www”\> ? I don’t see anything like > that. Could you show me what the whole Directory thing look like? Thanx in advance Pat