Configuring rails to use http and https through apache

Hello all,

I am having some trouble getting rails to work with both http and https. Using http everything works fine but I want to use SSL for user login and I am not sure how to achieve this with my current setup.

What i happening is when I go to to start my user session, apache2 is telling me:

Not Found

The requested URL /vell/user_session/new was not found on this server.

If I try to go to the root of the site using https, I get a listing of the public directory files. If I go to the root of the site using http it renders properly.

Here is what I have so far:

My app resides in my user directory /home/vmcilwain/apps/vell

I have a symlink in /var/www that points to the public directory of the app

Here is what I have in my apache2 config file for both http and https virtual hosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName <my.site.name>     DocumentRoot /var/www     Include rails     RailsEnv production </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost <my.site.name>:443>     ServerName <my.site.name>     SSLEngine on     SSLCertificateFile ssl/server.crt     SSLCertificateKeyFile ssl/server.key     DocumentRoot /var/www     Include rails     RailsEnv production   <Directory '/home/vmcilwain/apps/*/current/public'>     Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all   </Directory> </VirtualHost>

As far as I can tell, this is all that I need to get both http and https working so I am curious as to what I may be missing.

Hello all,

I am having some trouble getting rails to work with both http and https. Using http everything works fine but I want to use SSL for user login and I am not sure how to achieve this with my current setup.

What i happening is when I go to to start my user session, apache2 is telling me:

Not Found

The requested URL /vell/user_session/new was not found on this server.

Update: The apache error log is giving me the following error when I try to access my site via https: [Thu Dec 22 14:21:12 2011] [error] [client 192.104.65.1] File does not exist: /home/vmcilwain/apps/vell/user_session, referer: http://my.site.net/vell

If I go to to any part of my site through https, I just get a directory listing. So if I were to do https://my.site.net/vell it would show me all the folders in the root directory of the application.

On Dec 21, 10:59 pm, Vell <lovell.mcilw...@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello all,

> I am having some trouble getting rails to work with both http and > https. Using http everything works fine but I want to use SSL for user > login and I am not sure how to achieve this with my current setup.

> What i happening is when I go to to start my user session, apache2 is > telling me:

> Not Found

> The requested URL /vell/user_session/new was not found on this server.

Update: The apache error log is giving me the following error when I try to access my site via https: [Thu Dec 22 14:21:12 2011] [error] [client 192.104.65.1] File does not exist: /home/vmcilwain/apps/vell/user_session, referer:http://my.site.net/vell

Another Update: I was finally able to get this to work. My issues were that I didn't set my DocumentRoot to /var/www in my ssl vhost and changing the railsenv to development (not sure why that should have mattered).