# \[ANN\] MongrelDay Documentation -- Memoirs Of A Web Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 18, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728 "2006-06-18T10:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/1 "2006-06-18T10:17:03Z")
Happy RailsDay! While everyone else was out having fun with RailsDay I spent my time wisely and wrote up tons of documentation for Mongrel and cleaned out some of the docs I’ll never write anyway. I also took the time to apply some nice patches from Jonas P. for easily setting up redirects in Mongrel. Some of the highlighted documents people will be interested in are: - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/) – The main documentation listing. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/adoption.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/adoption.html) – People who’ve adopted Mongrel. E-mail me if you want a mention. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/not\_mongrel.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/not_mongrel.html) – Required reading for greedy people. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/litespeed.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/litespeed.html) – Litespeed documentation from Alison Rowland. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/pen\_balance.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/pen_balance.html) – Pen and Balance documentation (might not work right). - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/security.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/security.html) – Short notes on web application security and Mongrel. - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/distributed\_worker.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/distributed_worker.html) – Offloading work to a “Distributed Worker”. More to come on this topic. There’s lots more that were cleaned up, but if you find any errors feel free to shoot me the corrections. SUGGESTING AND WRITING If you think there’s some documentation that needs to be written then shoot me an e-mail and read: [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/contrib.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/contrib.html) That tells you all the stuff you need to do to write a documentation page. I know one person who got a job from his documentation for Mongrel, so it’s a money maker too! I’m starting pyramid schemes this week! MONGREL IS #2! I’m not a competitive person, but _in your face One-Click_! Mongrel finally beat it out. Now to just take down RubyGems. I think it shouldn’t count since everyone needs it. What do you think? BTW, if anyone wonders why I support win32, just ask yourself why the Ruby O.-Click installer is consistently in the top three projects on RubyForge. Yeah, windows doesn’t matter at all. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Apache docs and 0.3.13.1 up next! – 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:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/2 "2006-06-18T13:33:39Z")
On 6/18/06, Zed S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > - [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/litespeed.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/litespeed.html) – Litespeed > documentation from Alison Rowland. Is it possible to add HTTPS handling to litespeed documentation, similar to the one for pound (sending an additional header): … # pass along https hint AddHeader “X-Forwarded-Proto: https” HeadRemove “X-Forwarded-Proto” … It’s covered also in the apache+mod\_load\_balance docs, but i couldn’t find any info for litespeed. ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/3 "2006-06-18T16:31:16Z")
Zed S. wrote: > Happy RailsDay! > > While everyone else was out having fun with RailsDay I spent my time > wisely and wrote up tons of documentation for Mongrel and cleaned out > some of the docs I’ll never write anyway. Wow. You stand as a model for all to follow. (Really really really selective) excerpt: “Code lube is the answer to necessary code fisting.” Colorful, too. 🙂 – James B. “You harmonize; then you customize.” - Wilson Pickett ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/4 "2006-06-19T00:54:44Z")
James B. wrote: > Wow. You stand as a model for all to follow. > > (Really really really selective) excerpt: > “Code lube is the answer to necessary code fisting.” > > Colorful, too. Heh, there’s some funny shit in there! ``` * â??I love doing other peopleâ??s dirty work so that they can make ``` millions off the sweat on my back.â? \* â??I am your whore, so sure Iâ??ll get right to writing that Bittorrent client.â? \* â??I would love to be your corporate tool since Iâ??m all about getting screwed.â? \* â??Wow that idea is so brilliant I think Iâ??ll sign an NDA right away so you can take all my rights and all my work.â? And thanks for the docs! Joe ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/5 "2006-06-18T22:10:26Z")
On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Zed S. wrote: > I’m not a competitive person, but _in your face One-Click_! Mongrel > finally beat it out. Now to just take down RubyGems. I think it > shouldn’t count since everyone needs it. What do you think? > > Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Apache docs and 0.3.13.1 up next! > > – > Zed A. Shaw Zedas- ``` Once again you amaze. Thanks for all the hard work. Almost all of ``` the code I write these days depends on mongrel so thanks for that. -Ezra ---
**Author:** ![Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/da6949/32.png) [@Zed\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Zed_S)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-mongrelday-documentation-memoirs-of-a-web-server/63728/6 "2006-06-20T19:33:18Z")
On 6/18/06, Stoyan Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is it possible to add HTTPS handling to litespeed documentation, > It’s covered also in the apache+mod\_load\_balance and pound docs, but i couldn’t find any info for litespeed. Problem solved: [[http://litespeedtech.com/community/forum/showthread.php?p=2240](http://litespeedtech.com/community/forum/showthread.php?p=2240) ] The new litespeed-2.1.17 version automatically adding ‘X-Forwarded-Proto: https’ when proxing. Pretty nifty 🙂 Go-Go Mongrel