# Mongrel Cluster and Upload Progress

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-and-upload-progress/84919>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [February 8, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-and-upload-progress/84919 "2007-02-08T18:02:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bouldr-matt)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-and-upload-progress/84919/1 "2007-02-08T18:02:37Z")

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OK, so I have mongrel running with the upload progress plugin a-la  
[http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/upload\_progress.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/upload_progress.html) with a DRb  
instance taking care of the actual uploads. This works really well in  
development, however, I am running just one mongrel server locally.

When I move to my production environment, I am lost as to where I should  
put the mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf file. The contents of this file are  
as follows:

–

uri “/”,  
:handler =\> plugin(“/handlers/upload”,  
:path\_info =\> ‘/files/upload’,  
:drb =\> ‘druby://0.0.0.0:2999’),  
:in\_front =\> true

–

Now, locally, I start mongrel with the following command:

mongrel\_rails -S config/mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf

This works fine, but on my production machine, I have been unable to  
find how I go about specifying the contents of the  
mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf in mongrel\_cluster. Does anyone know how to  
do this?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Matt

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**Author:** ![bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bouldr-matt)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-and-upload-progress/84919/2 "2007-02-08T18:15:45Z")

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On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Matt H. wrote:

> as follows:
> 
> Now, locally, I start mongrel with the following command:
> 
> mongrel\_rails -S config/mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf
> 
> This works fine, but on my production machine, I have been unable to  
> find how I go about specifying the contents of the  
> mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf in mongrel\_cluster. Does anyone know  
> how to  
> do this?

In your /etc/mongrel\_cluster/whatever.yml file:

* * *

pid\_file: log/mongrel.pid  
servers: 3  
(…)  
config\_script: config/mongrel\_upload\_progress.conf

The value of that parameter is relative to the cwd parameter in that  
file (which usually points to your rails root). So put m\_u\_p.conf in  
RAILS\_ROOT/config.

-be

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**Author:** ![bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bouldr-matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bouldr-matt)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-and-upload-progress/84919/3 "2007-02-08T18:20:04Z")

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Fantastic, thanks Brad!

I’ll try this once traffic has died down for the night.