Comments on: Ruby on Rails applications with Mongrel cluster and Apache url rewriting on Windows

By: Rob Whitener

Rob Whitener — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:26:23 +0000

This worked beautifully! The only things I had to vary on were the paths to the log files (I needed it to be logs/.log) and the hosts file (for some reason, my system won’t let me edit hosts remotely via RDP, oh well) My apache is also running behind a wireless router and things seem to work beautifully.

A few months ago I spent about 3 days trying to figure out how to do this, with no luck. Thank you very much for this post, I have bookmarked it for future reference.

wonderful.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:43:06 +0000

This is great I all most gave up looking for this information.

Chris

By: Sharagoz

Sharagoz — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:03:51 +0000

Thanks mate, this helped me out bigtime!

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:02:44 +0000

@Guillaume: glad you liked it!

@Wagner: great choice! Doing that for linux is a breeze, and BTW mod_rails now is out there: http://www.modrails.com/

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:21:03 +0000

Great article, it helped me a lot!

By: Wagner Maestrelli

Wagner Maestrelli — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:38:42 +0000

Hi Paolo!
Sorry for taking too long to give you some feedback about the problem I commented here months ago. Our client was thinking about moving his server to Linux and he’s finally decided to do so. Consequently, I won’t be trying to configure our application with Mongrel cluster and Apache on Windows anymore. Hopefully, it will be easier on Linux. We’re planning to use Nginx…
Thanks for the help anyway!
Ciao!

By: Paolo Corti

Paolo Corti — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:48:10 +0000

@lucian: no idea what is going on in your case. The article applies to set the environment on 2 different hosts. Maybe you forgot to add the host of your second application in the host file?

By: lucian

lucian — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:38:26 +0000

Thanks for the reply.
I want to deploy another application on the same machine. I followed the recipe (it worked great for the first app) but i don’t seam to get it to work for the second app; i get “No route matches “/my_second_app” with {:method=>:get}”.

I created a new Proxy balancer section, and a new Virtual host section for each app, and i made sure the server name is unique. When i hit the port http://hostname:3005/my_secon_app it works.
What am I missing??! Any input is appreciated.

By: zahidal

zahidal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:35:06 +0000

Thanks for such a nice and up-to-date article. I was trying for this for 2/3 days but as I am not expert in inx platform i was unable to complete the thing. But in your post i got everything to-the-point so that I got the success in one go.

By: Paolo Corti

Paolo Corti — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:01:21 +0000

@Lucian: you may try using mod_auth_ldap:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html

@Neetal: you may do that, is just a matter of setting the directory of your ROR applications in you default web site (and you can put more ones, of course)