Azureus on Rails can be run with Apache 2.2 proxying requests to a cluster of Mongrel instances. Requests for static files are served by Apache. Make sure your Apache user has access to files in the azureusonrails/public directory: find azureusonrails/public -type d -print0 | xargs --null chmod o+x find azureusonrails/public -type f -print0 | xargs --null chmod o+r chmod o+r azureusonrails/public/