403 (Forbidden) with Apache on Mongrel Cluster

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Hi,

I've configured a rails application on my VPS to run on two mongrels. When I run curl on localhost, the starting page comes up fine. That is, mongrel is serving the app perfectly.

The problem arises when trying to access the app on my ip through apache. I get a 403 error. Just to test things out, I've set generous permissions on the entire rails directory structure still to no avail.

I've also set up a non-rails virtual host, and everything works fine there. So I doubt that it's a vhost problem.

What could be the problem here? Any insights would be awesome; to me, it's been a real gordian knot.

Thanks,

Kyle

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Hi,

I had a similar problem. I solved the problem by loading the proxy modules:

LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2-prefork/ mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2-prefork/ mod_proxy_http.so

in the apache configuration. Without the proxy-http module apache delivers a 403 access denied

regards -- andi