I'm using mongrel + apache 2.2 + mod_proxy_balancer.
apache2.2 is IPv6 well http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/bind.html#ipv6
Does Mongrel do IPv6 well?
Platform:RHEL ruby:1.8.6
A:
If you are using Apache as a frontend to Mongrel, whether Mongrel supports IPv6 or not is irrelevant, as Apache will serve your requests over IPv6 anyway.
It is perfectly acceptable to have Apache listen on [::]:80, and proxy to a Mongrel running on 127.0.0.1:1234, or whatever you use, and will be no less ‘IPv6-ready’ than proxying to a Mongrel running on, say [::1]:1234.
The 127.0.0.1 loopback interface will not be going anywhere any time soon, even after the apocalypse!
Jeremy Visser
2009-10-27 03:15:05
Does Mongrel track anything by IP address? Won't it get confused by this solution if it does?
Omnifarious
2009-10-27 03:21:06
That sort of confusion would occur whether over IPv4 or IPv6, thus isn't quite relevant to this question.Using Apache as a reverse proxy in this way is the norm (and is a safe assumption that the O.P. is doing it this way).
Jeremy Visser
2009-10-27 04:27:18