Mongrel users - Sep 2006 - Interesting proxy problem

Kia ora all,

I have been working on migrating our FastCGI sites to Mongrel over  
the past couple of weeks and have come up against an interesting  
problem.

We have it setup so that Apache 2.0 is proxying requests to Balance  
which is configured to use a mongrel cluster.

This works well *except* it won''t serve javascripts, which causes  
pages to hang. We''ve run balance in debug mode with packetdump and it  
looks as though the file is being sent. But the browser is left  
waiting for a response.

The interesting thing is; it sometime works the very first time when  
the cluster has been restarted.

Has anyone got any ideas what I can try next?

Regards
Nathan

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:08:33 +1200
Nathan Donaldson <scarydog at mac.com> wrote:
> Kia ora all,
> 
> I have been working on migrating our FastCGI sites to Mongrel over  
> the past couple of weeks and have come up against an interesting  
> problem.
> 
> We have it setup so that Apache 2.0 is proxying requests to Balance  
> which is configured to use a mongrel cluster.
>
Most of the instructions are for Apache 2.2.x since it supports the newer
mod_proxy_balancer.  Is there an operational reason why you can''t use
that?
 
> This works well *except* it won''t serve javascripts, which causes
> pages to hang. We''ve run balance in debug mode with packetdump and
it
> looks as though the file is being sent. But the browser is left  
> waiting for a response.
What version of Mongrel? 

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