Rack:Static with other middlewares

[Matthew M. Boedicker]

When Rack::Static is used under Passenger it seems like the request is served by Apache and none of the other middlewares in the chain are run. Is this correct?

Is there any way to serve static files but also run them through other middlewares such as deflater and cache? When running under rackup it uses all the middleware and I would like the application to always behave the same.

[Konstantin Haase]

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On Apr 21, 2010, at 05:22 , Matthew M. Boedicker wrote:

> When Rack::Static is used under Passenger it seems like the request is served by Apache and none of the other middlewares in the chain are run. Is this correct?

Usually you want that behavior, as Apache is much better at throwing static files at the browser. Handing the data through your application is a rather large overhead.

> Is there any way to serve static files but also run them through other middlewares such as deflater and cache? When running under rackup it uses all the middleware and I would like the application to always behave the same.
>

Use File.read or something instead of Rack::Static. If it's only about deflation/cashing, then you might want to consider setting that up on apache or even load balancer level.

Konstantin

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[Matthew M. Boedicker]

After more testing it looks like it was calling other middlewares for Rack::Static served files, but not if they were in the public directory. Passenger skips rack entirely for anything in public (where rackup sends those requests through rack). Not sure if this is the default Passenger behavior or something that my host has configured.

[Mateo Murphy]

On 21-Apr-10, at 6:56 PM, Matthew M. Boedicker wrote:

> After more testing it looks like it was calling other middlewares
> for Rack::Static served files, but not if they were in the public
> directory. Passenger skips rack entirely for anything in public
> (where rackup sends those requests through rack). Not sure if this
> is the default Passenger behavior or something that my host has
> configured.

This is standard Passenger behavior, as in most cases this is exactly
what you want