2009-05-04

How to fix RailsBaseUri (sub URI) with Phusion Passenger without setting relative_url_root

There is a bug which prevents correct routing with Phusion Passenger 2.2.2 and Rails 2.3.2 (>= 2.2.2) and RailsBaseUri. For example, if you have RailsBaseUri myapp, and you visit http://localhost/myapp/mycontroller/myview, then the request gets routed to controller myapp instead of mycontroller, and you most probably get the error message Routing Error; No route matches "/myapp/mycontroller/myview" with {:method=>:get}. If you visit http://myserver/myapp/mycontroller/myview, you'll get the error message The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.. This post gives instructions how to work around the bug.

The bug is mentioned in various places, such as
http://blog.ashchan.com/archive/2008/12/10/passengers-railsbaseuri-not-working/ and https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/1946-setting-a-relative-root-url-via-a- and http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/a87462afcb6c642e59bfcd2e11e3351e2b718c38 .

The manual workaround (according to what is suggested on the pages above) is adding the line below to config/environments/production.rb:
config.action_controller.relative_url_root = '/myapp'
We propose a completely automatic workaround here, which doesn't need hardcoding URIs to the Rails application configuration. To fix this, create a file config/initializers/!fix_relative_url_root.rb with the following contents:
# automatic relative_url_root fix
# for Phusion Passenger 2.2.2 and Rails 2.3.2 (>= 2.2.2)
# by pts@fazekas.hu at Mon May 4 20:48:38 CEST 2009
# from http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-fix-railsbaseuri-sub-uri-with.html
fail unless ActionController::Request # check loaded
module ActionController
class Request
def initialize(env)
@env = env # Rack::Request#initialize does only this
path = request_uri.to_s[/\A[^\?]*/]
sn = @env['SCRIPT_NAME']
if (RAILS_ENV == 'production' and
(sn.empty? or sn.starts_with?('/')) and
path == sn + @env['PATH_INFO'])
Base.relative_url_root = sn
end
end
end
end
In addition to the fix above, here is another fix for url_for and redirect_to so they automatically prepend ActionController::Base.relative_url_root when they get a string starting with a slash. To apply the fix, create file config/initializers/!relative_url_for.rb with the following contents:
# fix url_for and redirect_to to use ActionController::Base.relative_url_for
# fix for Rails 2.3.2
# by pts@fazekas.hu at Mon May 4 22:38:44 CEST 2009
# from http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-fix-railsbaseuri-sub-uri-with.html
fail unless ActionController::Base # check loaded
fail unless ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper # check loaded
module ActionController
class Base
alias url_for__ptsroot__ url_for
def url_for(options = {})
options = Base.relative_url_root.to_s + options if
options.kind_of?(String) and options.starts_with?('/')
url_for__ptsroot__(options)
end
alias redirect_to__ptsroot__ redirect_to
def redirect_to(options = {})
options = Base.relative_url_root.to_s + options if
options.kind_of?(String) and options.starts_with?('/')
redirect_to__ptsroot__(options)
end
end
end
module ActionView
module Helpers
module UrlHelper
alias url_for__ptsroot__ url_for
def url_for(options = {})
return escape_once(
::ActionController::Base.relative_url_root.to_s + options) if
options.kind_of?(String) and options.starts_with?('/')
url_for__ptsroot__(options)
end
end
end
end

3 comments:

Unknown said...

thanks a lot mate.

although, I've noticed that you don't need to apply the fix for generating 'redirect_to' and 'url_for' properly.

Rails(2.3.2) generates the urls in a sub-url aware fashion as long as we set the Base.relative_url_root during start-up.

Unknown said...

True.

But, i was talkin about the second part of the dynamic fix.

dynamic_fix part#1
automatically sets the relative_url_root


dynamic_fix part#2
fixes url_for and reditect_to so they automatically prepend ActionController::Base.relative_url_root


what I meant to say was, with rails 2.3.2 we do not need to apply the part#2 of the dynamic fix. Part#1 is good enough. If we apply both the parts, then the relative url will be applied twice in your urls.

Thanks for the fix. I'm lovin deploying apps on sub-urls with passenger; makes demo deployments much more easier to manage.

pts said...

Thanks for making your point clear that part #2 of the fix is not needed. But my experience is contrary to yours: I'm using Rails 2.3.2 with Phusion Passenger 2.2.2, and it doesn't work unless I apply both fixes.