# \[OT-ish\] Rails, Mongrel and apache **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 25, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272 "2006-02-25T20:05:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/1 "2006-02-25T20:05:04Z")
This is kind of off topic. I want to put my fancy rails app (myapp) as a subdirectory on my os x server. so my osx server works fine right now as [www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com). How do I tell apache (1.3 i think) to proxy web requests for a subdirectory /myapp to localhost:3000 where I have mongrel running (Jed, you rock)? I googled, but I don’t know the right words to use, so I’m not getting far. I know mod\_proxy comes in to play some where. That’s as far as I can get. clueless in Denver, Brian ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/2 "2006-02-25T20:46:20Z")
read [http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/9](http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/book/9) and replace lighttpd with mongrel… On Saturday, February 25, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Brian wrote: > clueless in Denver, > > Brian > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Mikkel B. www.strongside.dk - Football Portal(DK) [nflfeed.helenius.org](http://nflfeed.helenius.org) - Football News(DK) ting.minline.dk - Buy Old Stuff!(DK) ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/3 "2006-02-26T01:28:33Z")
In addition to Mikkel’s information you can read a little write-up I did with how to do a small cluster based on lighttpd and Mongrel: [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/lighttpd.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/lighttpd.html) OT: Someone told me that Apache can’t do mod\_proxy to a group of servers. Is this actually true? Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. (P.S. 'Z’ed not 'J’ed, but yeah they both sound hick.) ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/4 "2006-02-26T01:39:42Z")
'Z’ed said: > (P.S. 'Z’ed not 'J’ed, but yeah they both sound hick.) Thanks for the info, and for Mongrel itself. As a “brian” who has been called “Kevin” all his life, I should have done better (especially since I’ve been to your site a hundred times over the last week) Sorry for the gsub. And Mongrel really does rock. Brian ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/5 "2006-02-26T01:34:39Z")
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:25 -0500, Zed S. wrote: > (P.S. 'Z’ed not 'J’ed, but yeah they both sound hick.) * * * as in…“Zed’s dead, honey” 😉 Craig ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/6 "2006-02-28T00:38:23Z")
Zed S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > (P.S. 'Z’ed not 'J’ed, but yeah they both sound hick.) “Whose web server is this?” “It’s a web application server, baby.” “Whose web application server is this?” “It’s Zed’s.” Steve ([Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quotes - IMDb](http://imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes)) ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-ish-rails-mongrel-and-apache/73272/7 "2006-02-28T01:24:52Z")
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:35 -0800, Steven L. wrote: > Zed S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > > (P.S. 'Z’ed not 'J’ed, but yeah they both sound hick.) > > “Whose web server is this?” > > “It’s a web application server, baby.” > > “Whose web application server is this?” > > “It’s Zed’s.” * * * "Who is Zed?" “Zed’s dead, baby” Craig