# \[ANN\] Howtos: Deploying Rails on Windows servers **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 11, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243 "2006-05-11T15:27:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/1 "2006-05-11T15:27:01Z")
After a lot of work (and much promising) I have written instructions on various methods to deploy Rails applications in a Windows environment. For those of you who are not stuck with Windows, this won’t matter too much to you, but I think this is really useful for those in Windows shops. Topics covered: - Serving Multiple Rails Applications on Windows with Apache and Mongrel - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web infrastructure using Apache and FastCGI - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web infrastructure using Mongrel - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web Infrastructure using Lighttpd and Mongrel Visit [Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) to download the articles. Let me know what you think! ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/2 "2006-05-11T21:53:59Z")
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:25 -0500, Brian H. wrote: > - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web infrastructure using Apache > and FastCGI > > - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web infrastructure using Mongrel > > - Integrate Rails into an Existing IIS Web Infrastructure using > Lighttpd and Mongrel > > Visit [Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) to download the > articles. Let me know what you think! Nice Brian, I’m starting the documentation pages for Mongrel, and I’ve listed your site in the other documentation section: [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/index.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/index.html) Let me know if you want to write the “Best Practice Win32 Deployment” document. It’d basically be a short straight line version of what you’ve got there, with references to your stuff for more detailed instructions. – Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/3 "2006-05-11T22:32:15Z")
Zed: I’d be happy to. ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/4 "2006-05-11T22:51:27Z")
On 5/11/06, Brian H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > those in Windows shops. This is mildly OT but do you have any recommendations with your mod\_proxy-\>mongrel setup for handling caching? Because just looking through the doc, I don’t see how you’ll be able to accomodate rails’s built in caching mechanisms. Any information you can provide would be great, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/5 "2006-05-12T00:54:04Z")
I actually mention that… however, according to Zed: “Mongrel (as of 0.3.7) by default supports Rails style page caching in the RailsHandler it uses to serve your applications. What this means is that if you do a page cached action (which writes a .html file as well as respond) then Mongrel will just serve up the cached page instead of bug Rails.” Now, I know Lighttpd and Apache can serve static stuff up much faster, but at least it’s not like Rails gets invoked on every request. I am investigateing several solutions for this right now and will probably publish my findings at the same web site. It’s definitely an issue that concerns me. ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/6 "2006-05-12T01:03:16Z")
On May 11, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Tanner B. wrote: > This is mildly OT but do you have any recommendations with your > mod\_proxy-\>mongrel setup for handling caching? Because just > looking through the doc, I don’t see how you’ll be able to > accomodate rails’s built in caching mechanisms. Any information > you can provide would be great, Here’s some Apache config stuff from a previous post to the Rails list. It handles static content via Apache and proxies the rest to Mongrel. # Serve static request with Apache RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT\_ROOT}/%{REQUEST\_FILENAME} -f # Serve server-info and server-status with Apache RewriteRule . - [last] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/(server-info|server-status) # Everything else goes to Mongrel RewriteRule . - [last] RewriteRule ^/(.\*)$ balancer://proxy\_group/$1 [proxy] # This defines where the mongrels are \ BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:7000](http://127.0.0.1:7000) BalancerMember [http://127.0.0.1:7001](http://127.0.0.1:7001) # This handles the reverse proxying ProxyPassReverse / balancer://proxy\_group/ If anyone wants to write this up, go for it. Just give me an attribution, please. 🙂 – – Tom M. ---
**Author:** ![kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@kuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kuma)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-howtos-deploying-rails-on-windows-servers/60243/7 "2006-05-12T01:18:48Z")
The commenting was a bit off, sorry for that. This fixes that. Again, if anyone wants to write this up, go for it. Just give me an attribution, please. 🙂 > RewriteRule . - [last] > > # This handles the reverse proxying > > ProxyPassReverse / balancer://proxy\_group/ – – Tom M.