Routing problems - Apache proxy vs. Webrick direct

Rails
1

I dropped the use of fastcgi because I could not get popen working (see
‘[Rails] Apache2 and popen’). It works under WebBrick. Since CGI is
too
slow, I thought I’d proxy to WebBrick via Apache.

I am having routing problems now with escaped slashes in the URL.

Here’s my routes.rb:
map.connect ‘’, :controller => “wiki”
map.connect ‘:controller/service.wsdl’, :action => ‘wsdl’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

My request should drop down to the default action.

Here’s my apache vhost configuration:

ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/

ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/ 

RewriteEngine On
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [P,L]

I’ve tried both above, what I have commented out and what I have
uncommented
with the same results below.

Here’s the url I request and the not found error in the apache logs:
10.0.0.2 - - [06/Jan/2006:02:49:19 -0500] “GET
/repository/index/lib%2Fnet%2F HTTP/1.1” 404 618

And here’s the error in my rails log:

Processing Base#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-01-06 03:01:41) [GET]
Parameters: {}
ActionController::RoutingError (Recognition failed for
“/error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var”):
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:469:in
recognition_failed' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:459:in recognize!’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:117:in handle_dispatch’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:83:in
service' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in service’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in run' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:155:in start_thread’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:144:in start' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:144:in start_thread’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:94:in start' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in each’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:89:in start' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in start’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:79:in start' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:69:in dispatch’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require__' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in require’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in
require' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/lib/commands/server.rb:28 c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in require__’
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require' c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in require’
c:/www/xxxxxxxxx/script/server:3
Rendering
c:/apps/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_controller/templates/rescues/layout.rhtml
(404 Page Not Found)

It looks like all the params are empty???

Accessing the same URL, except bypassing Apache and using the Webrick
port I
get success:

Processing RepositoryController#index (for 10.0.0.2 at 2006-01-06
03:04:26)
[GET]
Parameters: {“action”=>“index”, “id”=>“lib/net/”,
“controller”=>“repository”}
Rendering within layouts/repository
Rendering repository/index
Completed in 0.63100 (1 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.03000 (4%) | DB:
0.03000
(4%) | 200 OK
[http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/repository/index/lib%2Fnet%2F]

How do I fix this?

Thanks

J. Lambert

2

Hi Jon,

I am not very familiar with mod_rewrite but maybe adding QSA to the
rule will help?

RewriteEngine On
ProxyPreserveHost On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [P,L]

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [QSA, P,L]

As a side note: I have found lighttpd faster and more reliable than
webrick for development. And I am using proxying Apache → Lightttpd
setup on my Textdrive account - it works like a charm.

3

Bragi Ragnarson wrote:

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [QSA, P,L]

Thanks. I gave that a shot but I still get the same errors.

–
J. Lambert

4

Jon A. Lambert wrote:

webbrick.
The main difference with this particular controller is the escaping
of /'s in the :id part.

/repository/index/lib%2Fnet%2F

Looks like it’s a mod_rewrite bug.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34602

And it’s also a Proxypass bug
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29554

It’s only been broken for a year and a half.

I guess I have to reevaluate how to do this.

I’d like to pass a path to :id. Maybe use separators that won’t be
stepped
on by
apache?

–
J. Lambert

5

Jon A. Lambert wrote:

Bragi Ragnarson wrote:

RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:3000/$1 [QSA, P,L]

Thanks. I gave that a shot but I still get the same errors.

I should add that I am having no trouble at all with other controllers
in
this same application using the Apache proxy to webbrick.

The main difference with this particular controller is the escaping of
/'s
in the :id part.

/repository/index/lib%2Fnet%2F

–
J. Lambert

6

Jon A. Lambert wrote:

I’d like to pass a path to :id. Maybe use separators that won’t be
stepped on by
apache?

I thought I post my solution in case anyone else encounters this.

I rewrote application.

In routes.rb…

map.connect ‘’, :controller => “wiki”
map.connect ‘repository/index/*path’, :controller => “repository”,
:action
=> “index”
map.connect ‘repository/show/*path’, :controller => “repository”,
:action
=> “show”
map.connect ‘:controller/service.wsdl’, :action => ‘wsdl’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

I pass the rest of the parms in an array. Can’t use *id for some reason
above.

Looks like this when the controller gets it.
Parameters: {“action”=>“index”, “controller”=>“repository”,
“path”=>[“lib”,
“net”]}

Also in my views, I couldn’t stuff the path into :id nor :path and use
link_to. I expect
:path gets walked on by the routing code above.

So I had to create me own links.
<%= “<a href=”/repository/index/#{@fpath.empty? ? “”:
@fpath+’/’}#{f[0…-1]}">#{f}" %>

–
J. Lambert