Ruby w/ Apache mod_proxy

Rails
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Yes, I know this is more specifically an Apache question, but you guys
in this group know this stuff forwards & backwards it seems.

I am running the glassfish gem (in lieu of mongrel) on port 81. If I
go to http://127.0.0.1:81 I get my rails app up beautifully.
Unfortunately, I am also required to have Apache 1.3.33 running on the
production server.

So I am trying to mod_proxy the site to the url with port 81 that I
know works. Here is how I have the VirtualHost in my httpd.conf file
set up:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName gg
DocumentRoot C:/jruby/rails_apps/gg
ProxyPass /gg http://127.0.0.1:81
ProxyPassReverse /gg http://127.0.0.1:81
<Location /gg>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Ive also have unremmed:

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
-and-
AddModule mod_proxy.c

whenever I go to hit http://127.0.0.1/gg I get a 404 not found error.
I am certain my document root is correct. Can you fellows here who
have done this tell me what I am missing? Thanks, Janna B.

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On Jun 7, 2:37 pm, JannaB [email protected] wrote:

whenever I go to hithttp://127.0.0.1/ggI get a 404 not found error.
I am certain my document root is correct. Can you fellows here who
have done this tell me what I am missing? Thanks, Janna B.

Who is throwing the 404 ? Is it rails telling you it doesn’t have a
controller called gg ?

Fred

3

Fred,

It does not appear to be – when I check my gg/logs and gg/logs/
mongrel_ debug logs there is nothing mentioning an error here

On Jun 7, 9:42 am, Frederick C. [email protected]

4

I must also mention I have:

LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so

in httpd.conf

5

maybe you cannot do this with Apaqche 1.3.33 ?

6

But that’s not what I want. I need Apache listening on port 80,
routing it to the glassfish gem running on 81 (or any other port other
than 80)

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, JannaB[email protected] wrote:

So I am trying to mod_proxy the site to the url with port 81 that I
know works. Here is how I have the VirtualHost in my httpd.conf file
set up:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName gg
…

…

whenever I go to hit http://127.0.0.1/gg I get a 404 not found error.
I am certain my document root is correct. Can you fellows here who
have done this tell me what I am missing? Thanks, Janna B.

The servername of http://127.0.0.1/gg is not gg but 127.0.0.1 so I’m
pretty sure that the virtualhost directive isn’t having any effect for
the request.

I’d try adding an entry in /etc/hosts to map gg to 127.0.0.1 and then
point the browser at

http://gg

and see what happens

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:25 PM, JannaB[email protected] wrote:

But that’s not what I want. I need Apache listening on port 80,
routing it to the glassfish gem running on 81 (or any other port other
than 80)

I think you need to understand how Apache virtual hosts work,
particularly the difference between ip based and name-based vhosts:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html

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