Rails - Sep 2005 - serving non-html cached file with proper content-type via lighttpd

Hi all,

I have a site that makes heavy use of caching and is served through 
lighttpd. One of the pages that is cached is the rss feed, which should 
be served as text/xml.

Seeing as rails caches pages with a .html extension, it''s being served 
with a html content-type. I know how to work around this via apache, 
but not via lighttpd.

Has anyone had to deal with this before? Any pointers?

> I have a site that makes heavy use of caching and is served through 
> lighttpd. One of the pages that is cached is the rss feed, which 
> should be served as text/xml.
>
Ok, I think I nailed it. Should anyone face the same problem, here''s 
what I did:

In lighttpd.conf:

url.rewrite = (
   "^/$"           => "index.html",
   "^(/rss[^.]*)$" => "$1.xml",      # <==  
"^([^.]+)$"     => "$1.html",
)


In a file where you override ActionController::Base (must be done on 
base for sweeping to work):

def page_cache_file(path)
   s = super
   s.sub!(/\.html$/, ".xml") if s =~ /^\/rss/
   s
end

Maybe I''ll work on a patch that allows caches_page to specify a 
different extension for some actions.