REVERSE PROXY PLUGIN Version 1.0.6.0 (March 16th, 2009)
© 2006-2009 Brian Hogan
Introduction
This plugin is designed to allow your Rails application to reside behind a reverse proxy.
When the plugin is configured and the application is running in production mode, any URLs generated
by Rails helpers will automatically be prefixed with the host and path you specify.
Example Usage
An organization may be interested in running a Rails application behind a reverse proxy such as Apache. However,
any URLs generated by the Rails appliction would expose the proxy.
For example, a front-end server http://www.mydomain.com/app1/ might be mapped to http://backend.mydomain.com:3000/
The plugin would be configured to prepend http://www.mydomain.com/app1 to all URLs generated by the application.
Usage and Configuration
Install via Subversion using the Ruby script/plugin install command. In the root of your Rails application structure
(where you can see the app/ vendor/ and public/ folders)
execute the following command:
ruby script/plugin install http://svn.napcsweb.com/public/reverse_proxy_fix
You will be prompted by the script to specify the version of Rails you're using. Select
the version that best matches your version of Rails and press the Enter key.
You should be prompted to enter the base url of your front-end server when you install
the plugin via script/plugin install. You should not include the trailing slash! For
example:
http://www.mydomain.com/typo
If that doesn't work for some reason, you can run the install.rb script in
vendor/plugins/reverse_proxy_fix
Or you can manually edit the file lib/config.rb and uncomment the BASE_URL line. (It should be the only line in the file. Enter the desired base url
that you would like the plugin to prepend to any generated URLs.
Running In Production
This plugin only operates in production mode.
Versions of Rails
This plugin supports Rails 1.x, Rails 1.2.x, and Rails 2.0 by using separate files for each Rails version
During the installation you'll need to tell the plugin which version to use. If this fails for some reason,
simply rename the appropriate file to reverse_proxy_fix.rb
* 116.rb (Rails 1.1.6 or below)
* 123.rb (Rails 1.2.X)
* 20.rb (Rails 2.0-2.2)
* 23.rb (Rails 2.3.x)
Then start your application in Production mode. The plugin is automatically disabled when you run in development mode, so you don't
need to do any special configurations to develop your application.
That's it!
Limitations
First, asset hosts are disabled and overruled by this plugin. Your asset host base URL is set to the base url you specify. Modify the plugin to change this behavior. I am open to patches for this, and am also looking at better solutions.
Second, in order to get named routes working in Rails 2.0 I took the shortcut and disabled route optimization. This is suboptimal, and am looking for patches from users.
Revisions
Version 1.0.6.0
* Added support for Rails 2.3
Version 1.0.5.2
* Updated install script to specify that this does in fact work with Rails 2.1 and 2.2.
Version 1.0.5.1
* Updated the readme version and fixed the installation script so it worked for platforms other than Windows (Thanks to Brian Candler for catching this and supplying a patch)
Version 1.0.5
* Fixed the issue that prevented named routes from not working in Rails 2.0 by disabling named route optimization.
Version 1.0.4.1
* Fixed the installer script to properly select Rails version. (Joshua Miller)
Version 1.0.4.0
* Added support for Rails 2.0 - needs more testing
Version 1.0.3.2
* Unified installer for all Rails versions again.
Version 1.0.3.1
* Fixed an issue when using RESTful routing - plugin should no longer activate in dev mode.
Version 1.0.3
* Added a rake task to configure the plugin
* fixed a situation where the installer didn't work in Rails 1.2.3
* fixed a problem with request.request_uri not setting the base path.
* Overloaded routing mechanism to avoid collisions with the modified request.request_uri
* Tested with acts_as_authenticated
Version 1.0.2
* Fixed issue where page caching does not work. The URL rewriting can now be turned off by sending *:skip_relative_url_root => true* to any calls to url_for or link_to. (This is the method that caching uses to build the cached urls)
Version 1.0.1
* Small bug fix to allow :only_path => false to work correctly when called on link_to and url_for
Version 1.0
* Initial Release
License
Copyright © 2006-2009 Brian Hogan
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