I&#39;m at the final stage of deploying our Galaxy instance.  I&#39;m implementing the proxy server and load balancing with 1 job runner, and 5 web runners using Apache.  I&#39;m following the guide on:<div><br></div><div>
<a href="http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Performance/Web%20Application%20Scaling">http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Config/Performance/Web%20Application%20Scaling</a></div><div><br></div><div>All the Galaxy universe_wsgi.[webapp|runner].ini changes are fine.  When editing the Apache configuration, I discovered a slight problem.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>First off, instead of modifying /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, I created /etc/httpd/conf.d/galaxy.conf.  The /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf reads /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf for additional settings.  I thought it best to put changes here instead of polluting httpd.conf.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One of the last changes in the docs is to Apache&#39;s rewriting rules is to change</div><div><br></div><div><div>RewriteRule ^/galaxy(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P]</div><div><br></div><div>to </div>
<div><br></div><div>RewriteRule ^(.*) balancer://galaxy$1 [P]</div></div><div><br></div><div>The problem with this however is that &quot;http://&lt;machine&gt;/galaxy&quot; not longer works.  Only &quot;http://&lt;machine&gt;/galaxy/&quot; (note the trailing backslash).  Without the trailing backslash, HTTP requests never get past Apache&#39;s rewrite rules.  I *think* the correct change should be:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div>RewriteRule ^/galaxy(.*) balancer://galaxy$1 [P]</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>This seems to work for me (so far) and allows initial requests with and without the trailing backslash.  Can I recommend this as a change to the docs?  Also, can I recommend documenting a separate galaxy.conf for Apache?  I&#39;d be happy to provide mine as a model, if you&#39;d like.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ryan</div><div><br></div>