On 9/9/06 8:36 AM, Jens Kraemer wrote:
> To conditionally forward requests to Mongrel you should use url
> rewrite rules instead of ProxyPass* directives:
>
> # Rewrite index to check for static
> RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA]
>
> # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page
> RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
>
> # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster
> # translated: "if this request does not point to a file we have lying
> # around in our file system (the !-f part), then go ahead and let
> #Mongrel do it's job"
> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
>
> You can achieve the same with the Proxy* rules by explicitly excluding
> several directories where static files reside from being proxied, but
> the rewrite approach is much more elegant, imho.
>
> The snippet has been taken from the quite complex apache config example
> at http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/apache.html
Jens,
Just wanted to thank you for annotating this. Very helpful to know how
these rules work.
Tom
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