# Sendfile headers **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042 "2009-01-30T19:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/1 "2009-01-30T19:24:51Z")
Last night at our little hack session at John’s, I added the ability to support X-Accel-Redirect headers for nginx. It would be great if someone could test this addition with nginx. In config/environment.rb, put this line inside the config.after\_initialize block: ResponseCache.defaults[:use\_x\_accel\_redirect] = true Since I have [seancribbs.com](http://seancribbs.com) running the latest and hosted using Apache/Passenger, I decided to turn on X-Sendfile headers. However, Apache doesn’t seem to recognize them and just serves up a blank response (with the X-Sendfile header included in the response). So my questions are two: 1. Is this just a side-effect of using Passenger? Would a proxy scenario (Mongrel, Thin, etc) work? 2. Is there something different Radiant should be doing with other headers to make it work? Additionally, if anyone could look into conditional GETs and make sure we’re doing it right, that would be great. Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/2 "2009-01-31T00:13:42Z")
It seems my problem is that “EnableSendfile” in Apache core is not the same thing as X-Sendfile. Installing mod\_xsendfile fixes the problem. That said, anyone who can test with nginx - please report! Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/3 "2009-01-31T02:06:41Z")
Once a page has comments there is a link in the admin of that page to view comments and if I click on it I get an application error. This is what the production log says: Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “page\_id”=\>“5”, “controller”=\>“admin/ comments”} Cookie set: session\_token=a7c8382524930cc092981330cf62fc75f8a68582; path=/; expires=Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:43:07 GMT Rendering template within layouts/application Rendering admin/comments/index ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `page\_edit\_url’ for #ActionView::Base:0x93fe360) on line #1 of admin/comments/index.rhtml: 1: # \<%= @page.nil? ? “#{params[:status].titleize if params[:status]} Comments” : “#{@page.comments\_count} #{pluralize(@page.comments\_count, “Comment”)} on #{link\_to(@page.title, page\_edit\_url(@page.id))}” %\> 2: 3: 4: View: ``` vendor/extensions/comments/app/views/admin/comments/index.rhtml: ``` 1:in `_run_erb_47vendor47extensions47comments47app47views47admin47comments47index46rhtml ' vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb:342:in`send’ vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_view/base.rb:342:in `execute' vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/template_handlers/ compilable.rb:29:in`send’ vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_view/template\_handlers/ compilable.rb:29:in `render' vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/template.rb:35:in`render’ vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_view/template.rb:22:in `render_template' vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb:248:in`render\_file’ What do I do about this undefined method ‘page\_edit\_url’? Thanks for any help, Steven ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/4 "2009-01-31T03:07:31Z")
Comments may not have been updated for Radiant 0.7 (which did not preserve named routes from earlier versions) I believe it should be edit\_admin\_page\_url now, assuming you are on edge Radiant. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/5 "2009-02-02T22:22:59Z")
Sean, did you use my page\_attachments\_xsendfile extension? If not, I’m curious how you set it up. Jason ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/6 "2009-02-02T22:51:45Z")
Jason, This doesn’t affect page\_attachments. For Apache, I compiled and installed mod\_xsendfile, and then added these two directives to my Apache config: XSendfile on XSendFileAllowAbove on And this line to config/environment.rb, inside the after\_initialize block: ResponseCache.defaults[:use\_x\_sendfile] = true Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/7 "2009-01-31T03:41:28Z")
Thank you Jim. I bet you’re right. Steven ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/8 "2009-02-03T05:03:22Z")
And did it work in production? When I did exactly that (probably 4 months ago), I found sometimes I would get a blank page or the plain text version of the cache file. I didn’t have time to figure it out, so I just turned it off again. ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/9 "2009-02-03T05:13:18Z")
I got blank pages occasionally until I installed mod\_xsendfile properly. Then, It Just Worked™. Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/10 "2009-02-03T14:26:47Z")
They wouldn’t report a different size (all other headers are preserved), but the header gives the file a fast-track through the web-server and operating system. Essentially, it tells the OS to stream the file to the socket, on OS’s that support it. Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/11 "2009-02-03T06:11:47Z")
i’ve been using the old x-sendfile patch on nginx and mongrel for about a year with no blank page issues. after setting up an edge 0.7 in a virtual machine i was able to run nginx and thin in production mode with no blank pages in well over a million requests through ab (assuming those blank pages would report their size differently than the page that was supposed to be served). ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/12 "2009-02-08T23:02:06Z")
I installed on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10. ([seancribbs.com](http://seancribbs.com)) Sean ---
**Author:** ![smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sendfile-headers/159042/13 "2009-02-08T22:54:26Z")
what type of system did you install mod\_xsendfile on? it’s completely broken for 64bit httpd on osx.