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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 21, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/secure-static-html-pages-with-mongrel-cluster-on-apache-in/151427 "2008-10-21T11:09:50Z")\
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**Author:**  [@simham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simham)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/secure-static-html-pages-with-mongrel-cluster-on-apache-in/151427/1 "2008-10-21T11:09:50Z")
I have security issue with Apache and mongrel cluster and Ruby on Rails.
My Application is in ruby on rails and deployed using apache and mongrel
cluster.
I am able to secure the .rhtml files using filters.
I have few static html files, which I placed, in one of the sub folders
of Public folder.
I am giving link from my .rhtml files to static .html file.
I want to access the static html only If the user login to my
application and browse the static html files.
I want to restrict the user access when the user tries to access the
static html directly by typing the URL
So how can I secure my static html pages in ROR with Mongrel cluster on
Windows with Apache Server?
Please provide your valuable suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
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**Author:**  [@simham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simham)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/secure-static-html-pages-with-mongrel-cluster-on-apache-in/151427/2 "2008-10-21T12:06:12Z")
Nara Simha wrote:
> I want to restrict the user access when the user tries to access the
> static html directly by typing the URL
The way I do this is serve the files from rails using send\_file.