Working With Rails

Hi Bala,

If you are running mongrel_cluster in background with apache+mod_proxy to serve rails requests then this might help you.

mod_proxy sometimes reject requests to Mongrel. This comes from two known Apache bugs #39499 and #37770

To resolve the problem and as workaround for it add the lines below to your Apache VirtualHost section. #Fix for Apache bug 39499

<VirtualHost *>
   SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
   SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
</VirtualHost>

Can i set email notification in Apache config. to trigger mail whenever the server encounters a proxy error?

Balaji,

No, I don’t believe you can set Apache to notify you when this Proxy error occurs, because this is a passive proxy error, meaning that it does this only when requests come in. It does not do any kind of active monitoring of the mongrel_cluster behind it. That is, unless there is something that I’m not familiar with.

Your best bet is to setup some kind of remote monitoring, that checks for the HTTP status code, or even content at regular intervals. A lot of remote monitoring services exist, and I’m certain some of them are capable of monitoring based on content or response code.

Kevin Elliott
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