Apache URLs with RubyOnRails

Ephracis · 06-08-2008, 07:20 AM

I've set up Ruby on Rails on my CentOS 5 machine. I am using Apache and I added a few lines to the httpd.conf file, including:

Quote:

DocumentRoot "/var/www"
<Directory "/var/www">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

LoadModule fcgid_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_fcgid.so
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock/
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
</IfModule>

<VirtualHost *:80>
SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/rails/jovianvoid/public/
ErrorLog /var/www/rails/jovianvoid/log/apache.log

<Directory /var/www/rails/jovianvoid/public/>
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

My Rails app was created in /var/www/rails/ using the command rails jovianvoid as local user.

Starting apache with the command service httpd start works fine and browsing to http://localhost gives me the usual "You're riding on rails" page. But if I create a controller (ruby script/generate controller hello index) and try to browse to http://localhost/hello it gives me "404 Not Found".

However, if I instead start ruby script/server and browse to http://localhost:3000/hello I get the correct message: "Find me in app/views/hello/index.html.erb"

So something is wrong with my Apache setup, but what?

Please help.

Tischbein · 06-08-2008, 08:56 AM

I don't know but maybe we can work it out.

First off I assume that you know what the 3000 is - the port number.

I think that the easiest solution is to put in an apache rewrite rule. I haven't played with these but I think you need to add something like this to your apache config file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/hello(.*) http://localhost:3000/hello$1

For details of rewrite rules see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...ml#RewriteRule

Regards, Tischbein.

Ephracis · 06-08-2008, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tischbein

I don't know but maybe we can work it out.

First off I assume that you know what the 3000 is - the port number.

I think that the easiest solution is to put in an apache rewrite rule. I haven't played with these but I think you need to add something like this to your apache config file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/hello(.*) http://localhost:3000/hello$1

For details of rewrite rules see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod...ml#RewriteRule

Regards, Tischbein.

Yeah, Apache runs at standard port 80 while the Ruby webserver (did they change that from Webrick to Mongrel?) runs at port 3000. So that's why localhost:3000 works, but localhost:80 doesn't: my apache conf isn't working. Apache doesn't like these http://<host>/<controller>/<action> kinda URLs.

Ephracis · 06-08-2008, 09:36 AM

SOLVED:

It seems that the .htaccess-file inside public/ was missing (don't know why). The guides on the net refers to it and tells you to change some lines but in my installation there was no such file. Googling for one and using it solved the problem and Apache will now handle the URLs correctly.