serving static html files out of /public

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Hi all,

I have added a rails app to a pre-existing static website. I have put all the legacy content (i.e. html files and images) in the public dir and sub-dirs as appropriate.

Everything works fine - both the rails app and the static. My problem is it looks like rails is trying to handle the requests for html files because I get lots of log entries like the following: <code> Processing ApplicationController#index (for 123.456.789.231 at 2008-06-25 17:02:56) [GET] Session ID: 819a6bbb60000b27fceeee Parameters: {}

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/somepage.htm" with {:method=>:get}): /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ routing.rb:1441:in `recognize_path' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/ routing.rb:1424:in `recognize' </code>

I'm using Apache and fcgi. Anyway I can get these requests process more cleanly?

Thanks,

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We use a rewrite rule so that any url that corresponds to an actual file on disc is handled directly by apache.

Fred