i am writing a new app in rails that i need to run on an existing domain..
the problem is, there are a few subdirectories on that domain that run a few old (but necessary) php scripts and a few other things that still need to be accessible..
is it possible to set up apache so that i can run my rails app using mod-proxy, but still retain access to the old directories in ~/public_html ?
Yes.
the only thing i would do is make sure that there is no directory name overlap in the system..
for example.. i couldn't have /scripts in both apps.. which is fine..
i would appreciate any help in getting this set up..
This is what we use and it works fine. (apache2/mongrel)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myserver.com DocumentRoot /path/to/my/app/public
<Directory "/path/to/my/app/public"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
<Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster> BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8805 </Proxy>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ $1/ [R]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.php RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.html -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/index.html [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}/index.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.*)[^/]$ $1/ [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
php_value include_path /path/to/my/app/php:/usr/local/lib/php:. php_value auto_prepend_file /path/to/my/app/php/auto_prepend.php
# this not only blocks access to .svn directories, but makes it appear # as though they aren't even there, not just that they are forbidden <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.svn/"> ErrorDocument 403 /404.html Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </DirectoryMatch>
</VirtualHost>
