[Mongrel] Apache rewrites with mongrel

[Ralf Vitasek]

the dispatch.cgi thing was meant for fastcgi setups without mongels,  
but noone is using that anymore.

i don't think you need any rewrites at all.

by pointing the document root to the public dir and the ProxyPass that  
end with "!" will make apache serve them statically without bothering  
your mongrels.
everything else will then be directed to the cluster.

here is an example container i'm using

this is with windows authentication utilizing an active directory  
domain and injecting the authenticated user into the headers for  
further use within my app controller
assets like images / stylesheets and javascripts get served directly  
and are also memcached
and all text content getting gzip compressed which saves about 70% of  
traffic

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName someserver.domain.de
   DocumentRoot "C:/rails/public/"

   ErrorLog "C:/rails/log/balancer_error.log"

   CacheEnable mem /images
   CacheEnable mem /stylesheets
   CacheEnable mem /javascripts
   CacheEnable mem /latest/images
   MCacheSize 64000000
   MCacheMaxObjectCount 10000
   MCacheMinObjectSize 1
   MCacheMaxObjectSize 20480

   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/ 
css application/json text/json application/xml application/xhtml+xml  
text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript

   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyVia On
   ProxyPreserveHost On

   ProxyPass /balancer !
   ProxyPass /images !
   ProxyPass /stylesheets !
   ProxyPass /javascripts !

   ProxyPass / balancer://mongrelcluster/
   ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mongrelcluster/

   <Proxy>
     AuthName "Windows Authentication"
     AuthType SSPI
     SSPIAuth On
     SSPIAuthoritative On
     SSPIOfferSSPI On
     SSPIOfferBasic On
     SSPIBasicPreferred On
     SSPIPerRequestAuth On
     SSPIDomain somedomain
     Require valid-user

     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} (.+)
     RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1]
     RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{RU}e
   </Proxy>

   <Proxy balancer://mongrelcluster>
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3101
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3102
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3103
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3104
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3105
     BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3106
   </Proxy>

   <Location /balancer>
     SetHandler balancer-manager
     AuthName "Windows Authentication for Balancer"
     AuthType SSPI
     SSPIAuth on
     SSPIOfferSSPI on
     SSPIOfferBasic off
     SSPIBasicPreferred On
     SSPIUsernameCase lower
     SSPIDomain somedomain
     Require group "somedomain\domain admins"
   </Location>

</VirtualHost>


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Am 16.06.2008 um 12:27 schrieb Guido Holz:

> uff... I saw this on an turorial.. but something went wrong.. know I
> have no time to cahnge and try out what´s right :-(
>
> So what handles the cached static-html-sites on your proxypasses?!? is
> this realy enough?
>
> another question is the difference between
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
>
> and
>
> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
>
>
> do I need the first or the second one?!?
>
> thanks guido
>
> neongrau __ wrote:
>> why do you need rewrites at all?
>>
>> just point your document root to the rails public dir
>> and these ProxyPass settings should be enough
>>
>>   ProxyPass /images !
>>   ProxyPass /stylesheets !
>>   ProxyPass /javascripts !
>>   ProxyPass / balancer://mongrelcluster/
>>   ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mongrelcluster/
>>
>>
>>
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>> Gr��e,Ralf Vitasek
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>> Am 16.06.2008 um 11:47 schrieb Guido Holz:
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