rails plus cgi/php?

[Danimal]

If I use mod_rails, can I still define and use a cgi-bin directory for
perl stuff and/or PHP stuff?

Maybe these should be two separate questions. Ultimately, though, I
can't tell from the docs if a virtual host has to be set for rails
only or if it can run rails in the documentroot but also define a cgi-
bin scriptdir?

-Danimal

[Hongli Lai]

Danimal wrote:
> If I use mod_rails, can I still define and use a cgi-bin directory for
> perl stuff and/or PHP stuff?

Yes, but probably not in the same virtual host as the Rails app.
Otherwise things will conflict with each other.
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[Ken Collins]

I dont know about cgi-bin dir, but I use mint (php stats) in my
mephisto blog. My vhost looks something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName metaskills.net
ServerAlias www.metaskills.net
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/hosts/metaskills.net/public"
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/hosts/metaskills.net/public">
Include conf/common/default_options.conf
Include conf/common/expires.conf
</Directory>
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/hosts/metaskills.net/public/mint">
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>
RewriteEngine On
# Make sure to stop processing redirects for mint.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mint/$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /mint/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mint.*
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI} [L]
Include conf/common/deflates.conf
</VirtualHost>

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[Danimal]

Hongli,

Thanks for the response. I guess I'm wondering, particularly in light
of Ken's post, why it wouldn't work to define a cgi-bin via a
Directory directive then set it to use the Perl handler.

For example, I have a ScriptAlias for cgi-bin and a Directory
directive but I also have proxy and reverseproxy directives to pass on
to a mongrel instance.

This all works well, but it's Apache 1.3 + Mongrel.

I'd love to jsut have Apache 2 + mod_rails. I'm asking only because
I'm still trying to get a server set up with Apache 2 so I can test
mod_rails. I'll try it out soon, though, and let you know.

-Danimal

[Eric Berry]

We had a similar issue come up where we have sub-directories of the
rails application point to php code. The way we got around this is by
setting up a ProxyPass in the virtual host. I don't know if this
helps, but if so, :D

Eric Berry

[craig....@gmail.com]

I have this in my apache config, where I use perl/cgi and mod_rails:

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

RailsBaseURI /coffee

[Danimal]

Craig,

This is perfect!

My rationale for all of this is that I really want to use UberUploader
for uploading large (and possibly multiple) files, but I want to run
it all on mod_rails. So this way, I think I can have both.

Thanks!

-Danimal