# Proxy, routes.rb, and urls **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220 "2007-03-26T21:14:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/1 "2007-03-26T21:14:26Z")
Wondering if this is possible in an elegant global way to adjust RoR’s urls… Basically what I would like to do is make Rails aware that it needs to have to adjust all the urls that refer to itself by a preceeding “/ rails” in the urls. I’ve tried things in routes.rb such as “map.test ‘rails/:controller, :action’”, etc…, but to no avail. Currently the only way I’ve been able to do this is to more or less hard code it ( which may not be too bad of a thing in this case ) in any .rhtml files with a link\_to adjustment, as in \<%= link\_to “newBYE”, :controller =\> “/rails/hello”, :action =\> “list\_times” %\> Not knowing RoR well enough yet to know if this is going to be a problem… but it seems to me a routes.rb generating solution would be better. I wouldn’t think this would be that hard, but perhaps it’s to much away from “convention over configuration”. The reason I want to do this is because at first we’ll be using Apache to proxy Rails requests, and the ‘/rails’ is the flag for Apache to hit on the reverse proxy. Thanks for any information, -Dave ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/2 "2007-03-26T22:32:36Z")
jetskers wrote: > files with a link\_to adjustment, as in > hit on the reverse proxy. > > Thanks for any information, > > -Dave Since you’ll be using Apache you can have it do the work for you by doing something like: ProxyPass /rails [http://127.0.0.1:3000/](http://127.0.0.1:3000/) ProxyPassReverse /rails [http://127.0.0.1:3000/](http://127.0.0.1:3000/) – Michael W. ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/3 "2007-03-26T23:07:06Z")
Well, yes, of course, and that’s what I’m doing. But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url’s? ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/4 "2007-03-26T23:37:11Z")
Well, yes, of course, and that’s what I’m doing. But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url’s? ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/5 "2007-03-26T23:22:10Z")
jetskers wrote: > Well, yes, of course, and that’s what I’m doing. > > But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to > applications > written in rails to put in /rails in those url’s? If you are using Mongrel you can do it like this: mongrel\_rails start -d -p 3000 -a 127.0.0.1 -e production –prefix /rails – Michael W. ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/6 "2007-03-27T00:13:16Z")
Well, yes, of course, and that’s what I’m doing. But how do I tell applications in rails to write links that refer to applications written in rails to put in /rails in those url’s? ---
**Author:** ![jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jetskers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jetskers)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/proxy-routes-rb-and-urls/90220/7 "2007-03-27T00:44:19Z")
oops… shouldn’t be hitting that reload button.