1.Download latest version of Apache HTTP Server.

2.Untar the file and change directory to the httpd folder created on uncompression.

3.Do the Apche compilation as Root user as follows:

#./configure –prefix=/opt/installs/apache2 –enable-deflate –enable-proxy –enable-proxy-html –enable-proxy-balancer –enable-rewrite –enable-cache–enable-mem-cache –enable-ssl –enable-headers

#make

#make install

*note it should be –enable so edit it if ists shown as ‘-’ on copying ..I had faced that many times on copy-paste

Add the following entries at end of httpd.conf

#note: This to connect Apache with Mongrel on 4000 and 4001 ports, if you wanna add a differnt server use that servers local or public IP instead of 127.0.0.1

#added on rails clustering by anoop

<Proxy balancer://mycluster>

# cluster member 1

BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:6000

BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:6001

</proxy>

#these virtual host contains the main configurations including mod deflate rules
<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin admin@greentripp.in

ServerName localhost.localdomain

ServerAlias localhost

ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/

ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mycluster/

ErrorLog /var/log/apache_error_log

CustomLog /var/log/apache_access_log combined

#Deflate rules used in LB1 by anoop

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

DeflateCompressionLevel 9

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

DeflateFilterNote Input instream

DeflateFilterNote Output outstream

DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio

</VirtualHost>

Confs. over

Now start mongrel_cluster from the root folder of your rails application

# mongrel_rails start -d -e production -p 6000

# mongrel_rails start -d -e production -p 6001 -P logs/mongrel2.pid

*you may add

Start Apache HTTP server:

#/opt/installs/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start

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