Rails - Jan 2006 - Multiple Rails Apps in 1 Virtual Host on Apache 1.3

After attempting this on my own using the Apache "Alias" directive I 
noticed that it did not work in all cases:

http://myserver/app1/ (this worked)
http://myserver/app1 (this failed, I won''t bore you with the rewrite 
logs of why)

This led me to the following article
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine

Which I followed.

Must to my sorrow I get the same behaviour as using "Alias".

I found I can fix this using another rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^/app1$   /app1/     [r]

I would like to get this working without having to do the redirect, has 
anybody else had this problem?

I am runnig Linux, apache 1.3 and the latest Rails version.

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:45:04PM +0100, Paul Barclay wrote:
} After attempting this on my own using the Apache "Alias" directive I
} noticed that it did not work in all cases:
} 
} http://myserver/app1/ (this worked)
} http://myserver/app1 (this failed, I won''t bore you with the rewrite 
} logs of why)
} 
} This led me to the following article
}
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine
} 
} Which I followed.
} 
} Must to my sorrow I get the same behaviour as using "Alias".
} 
} I found I can fix this using another rewrite rule:
} 
} RewriteRule ^/app1$   /app1/     [r]
} 
} I would like to get this working without having to do the redirect, has 
} anybody else had this problem?
} 
} I am runnig Linux, apache 1.3 and the latest Rails version.

Actually, this is exactly what you should do. If you watch what webservers
do when you ask for a directory without the terminal slash, it redirects
you to the URL with an appended slash. The redirect you are using is right
and proper. Why don''t you like it?

--Greg

No good reason really....

I just wanted to do it without the redirect to keep my superiors happy 
as they felt the redirect was a bit clumsy.

Thanks for the feedback.




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