Redirecting root to mongrel prefix

Rails
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Mongrel can be started with a prefix e.g.

mongrel_rails start -p 3000 --prefix /foobar

So that all of the app’s URLs are prefixed, e.g.

http://localhost:3000/foobar
http://localhost:3000/foobar/posts
http://localhost:3000/foobar/posts/1

The problem is that if you hit just the root ( http://localhost:3000/
) then mongrel responds with “NOT FOUND”.

I tried adding an index.html to RAILS_ROOT/public that redirects to /
foobar, but this results in an infinite loop.

Does anyone know how to get requests to the root to redirect to the
prefix?

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I think you are missing a piece of the puzzle, Apache and
mod_proxy…

You would never run multiple app roots unless you had multiple apps
and or a php app on / and a rails app on /app1…

If you want multiple apps running on your dev env just start them with
-p 3001 -p 3002 … ? much easier… but I guess that depends on what
you are trying to do …

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On Jan 28, 11:50 am, Freddy A. [email protected] wrote:

I think you are missing a piece of the puzzle, Apache and
mod_proxy…

Yes, this is running behind Apache. We have a Java app that runs at
http://java.ourdomain.com/foo

We have Apache proxy forwarding http://java.ourdomain.com/bar to
http://rails.ourdomain.com/bar

…so that ajax calls aren’t cross-domain to the java app.

The issue with redirecting the root requests to the prefixed URL is
more a matter of convenience, just so someone doesn’t see “NOT FOUND”
if they happen to hit the root URL.