# Using Mongrel,and Apache Alias **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 30, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-mongrel-and-apache-alias/108207 "2007-06-30T00:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoeZach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@JoeZach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JoeZach)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-mongrel-and-apache-alias/108207/1 "2007-06-30T00:09:31Z")
I’m trying to bring my rail app into production on a server I have, but I keep running into problems getting Apache and Mongrel to play nicely. Short Summary: Mongrel is up and running fine (port 8000) and I can connect to it and browse my app without issue. The problem is trying to proxy it through Apache. My current apache server is used to serve several other no rails applications and I have no way of changing that. I am trying to alias to the rails app, and let mongrel handle it in the background. Whenever I browse to my rails app through my apache, I get page not found errors, for everything. I looked in my production log, and apparently it is trying to send my alias director (/tora) to the router, instead of using it as the document root. Below is the error, and the apache.conf settings I am using for my alias. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -----------------------ERROR---------------------------- Processing ApplicationController#index (for 160.129.18.96 at 2007-06-29 17:07:09) [GET] Session ID: 35cdb51b7a9eb766702bc4ee9be34945 Parameters: {} ActionController::RoutingError (no route found to match “/tora/” with {:method=\>:get}): /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action\_controller/routing.rb:1292:in `recognize_path' /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1282:in `recognize’ /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:40:in `dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb: 78:in `process’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb: 76:in `synchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/rails.rb: 76:in `process’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:618:in `process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in `each’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:617:in `process_client' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `run’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `new’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:736:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `initialize’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel.rb:720:in `run’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:271:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:270:in `each’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:270:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/mongrel_rails:127:in `run’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/lib/mongrel/command.rb: 211:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.0.1/bin/mongrel_rails:243 /usr/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in `load’ /usr/bin/mongrel\_rails:16 -----------------------.CONF---------------------------- Alias /tora “/var/www/tora/public” \ Options FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %/var/www/tora/public/system/maintenance.html -f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT\_FILENAME} !maintenance.html RewriteRule ^.\*$ /system/maintenance.html [L] RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %/var/www/tora/public/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://mongrel\_cluster%{REQUEST\_URI} [P,QSA,L] \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:8001](http://127.0.0.1:8001)