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Adam
Asked: 2011-11-01 04:37:32 +0800 CST

Passenger on Apache2 - how to make a site appear on root

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I'm new to apache2 and passenger to set-up rails apps and followed a tutorial on how to get redmine (rails app) set up (http://xdissent.com/2010/05/04/github-clone-with-redmine/).

It all works great but to access the app you need to go to the /redmine directory. I have set it up as redmine.local/redmine. It would be great if I could be just redmine.local.

I had a look through the files I set up as part of the apache/mongrel/passenger piece and took out references to the directory but alas its never that easy.

I would appreciate any assistance, or links to more information for beginners that I can learn from.

Thanks for your help! Adam

--- Updated ---

Some additional details, I have the following files which i made edits too as part of the set-up of the server:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/redmine

 Include /opt/redmine/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf

/opt/redmine/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf

 ProxyPass /redmine balancer://redminecluster
 ProxyPassReverse /redmine balancer://redminecluster

 <Proxy balancer://redminecluster>
   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001/redmine
   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002/redmine
   Order deny,allow
   Allow from all
 </Proxy>

/opt/redmine/apps/redmine/config/mongrel_cluster.yml

 --- 
 prefix: /redmine
 log_file: log/mongrel.log
 port: "3001"
 environment: production
 pid_file: tmp/pids/mongrel.pid
 servers: 2

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

 <Directory /var/www/>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
 </Directory>
 <Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
 </Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
 <Directory /var/www/usr/lib/cgi-bin>
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 </Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
 <Directory /var/www/usr/share/doc/>
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
 </Directory>
 DocumentRoot /var/www

 </VirtualHost>

I can't find a file that references the current directory /redmine as a route so not sure the server finds it in the first place - unless its that conf.d thing.

apache-2.2 mongrel phusion-passenger

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    UPDATE

    1. Edit the redmine.conf file to the belows content:

      <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName redmine.local
    ErrorLog logs/redmine_error_log

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://redminecluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L] 

    <Proxy balancer://redminecluster>
        BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001
        BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002
    </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

    2. Remove the prefix option from mongrel_cluster.yml.

    3. Restart Apache and try again.

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