Mongrel users - Aug 2006 - Mongrel servers running in a subdirectory behind a proxy

I was able to find some information about this in the list archives,
but it ended with a possible patch being submitted for Mongrel.

I tried to follow a few of the instructions, but I''m still kind of
stuck, since I''m not sure if what I''m seeing is the proper
results. I
have an application running on a cluster of mongrel servers, which is
behind pen, which in turn is behind an apache 1.3 mod_proxy.
apache >> proxypass /app http://127.0.0.1:8000 >> pen(8000) >>
mongrel_cluster (8001-3)

I''m using mongrel_cluster, so I added "prefix: /app" into the
cluster
configuration, but I''m not sure if it''s doing anything, as the
routes
generated by rails are still /user/index and not /app/user/index

As part of the information in previous posts, I found this possible
solution, but I wasn''t sure if I need to do both at the same time.
#make rails think it lives in /app
ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/app"

Also the above setting has a bad side effect that if makes the images,
stylesheets, javascripts think they are in /app, even when using the
external host setting below.
# Enable serving of images, stylesheets, and javascripts from an asset server
config.action_controller.asset_host = "http://assets.example.com"

Thanks for any help you can supply.

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 13:12 -0500, Joey Geiger wrote:
> I was able to find some information about this in the list archives,
> but it ended with a possible patch being submitted for Mongrel.
> 
You need the pre-release 0.3.13.4 of mongrel which supports the --prefix
option:

sudo gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases/

With this you can then configure your mongrel servers with the --prefix
option:

mongrel_rails start -e production --prefix=/app

I''ll have to contact Bradley about how to get mongrel_cluster to use
this though.


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On Aug 10, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Zed Shaw wrote:
>
> With this you can then configure your mongrel servers with the -- 
> prefix
> option:
>
> mongrel_rails start -e production --prefix=/app
>
> I''ll have to contact Bradley about how to get mongrel_cluster to
use
> this though.
A mongrel_cluster release is coming soon (like tomorrow). It has the  
''prefix'' patch and other nice contributions.

Unless, of course, Rails 1.1.7 comes out.

-Bradley
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