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Serving static files without proxying

March 20, 2009 19:00

In preparation for working on the prologblog.com CSS, I wanted to change my Apache config to serve static files like CSS and JavaScript before those requests got passed to the Prolog application.

Adjusting the rewrite rules I was already using for a Rails application, I changed the Prolog Blog config to use this:

# Redirect all non-static requests to Prolog
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8000%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]


and I was then able to remove my Proxy commands I used originally:

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8000/


Does anyone know any reason why having the rewrite rule do all the proxying work wouldn’t be the best way? It has been working fine, but I was surprised by the fact that now no proxy commands are required.

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