Lighttpd for rails app subdomain apache for the rest

I want to host a rails app at mydomain.com/railsapp. For technical
reasons I have to leave mydomain.com on apache. This means that I need
to tell apache to proxy only requests for mydomain.com/railsapp to
lighttpd. I have deployed in a situation like this before around a year
and a half ago but it was a real pain. Lighttpd and rails have matured
a lot in the year and a half since I did that ugly deploy so I was
wondering if it has gotten any easier?

Example lighttpd.conf files, rails code samples, and general advice for
getting this to work would be great. The domain I am deploying to is
already hosted at TextDrive so I will be deploying there and using
webmin to configure apache and shell access to get to lighttpd.conf.

Thank you,
Matthew M.
blog.mattmargolis.net

hosted at TextDrive so I will be deploying there and using webmin to
configure apache and shell access to get to lighttpd.conf.

If you’re using apache 2.2.2 why not proxy directly from apache to
mongrel
and skip lightttpd/fastcgi all together?

You can tell apache to only proxy a certain location and I believe the
latest beta (soon to be release) of mongrel supports “sub-directory”
rails
apps…

-p