Deployment suggestions

Rails
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I will be deploying a rails application later today, my first rails
deployment actually. My first application is a simple download service,
so it does little more than send_file. Are there still problems with
send_file and apache? Should I be using Mongrel? I have another
application that I will be deploying in a few weeks as well, which is
more of a standard rails app.

Any help is well appreciated.

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I’ve recently deployed a couple of apps using lighttpd. It works well,
and I have had nothing but problems trying to use apache.
I’ve looked at mongrel and litespeed as well. Mongrel seems to work
well, and I’d like to use it because it would take advantage of our
hardware load balancer, but lighttpd offers easy, powerful
configuration, and it’s really fast. I haven’t used sendfile, but
everything with lighttpd seems to be easy to use and works well. I’m
strangely attracted to Litespeed, but the free version doesn’t offer
sendfile support.

Jason

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Jason N. wrote:

I’ve recently deployed a couple of apps using lighttpd. It works well,
and I have had nothing but problems trying to use apache.

I use Apache2. I haven’t had issues with it. It’s been very stable for
me. Not to say Lighttpd or Mongrel aren’t the way to go,
but just to throw out that not everyone has issues with Apache.

Zach
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Jason N. wrote:

I’ve recently deployed a couple of apps using lighttpd. It works well,
and I have had nothing but problems trying to use apache.

I, like zdennis, have no problems at all running the Apache 1.3+FCGI
configuration…
at least not yet anyway.

Long
www.edgesoft.ca/blog/read/2 - rails articles

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so you’re using fcgi?

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I’ve run into mystery problems with Apache 1.3/FCGI and Apache 2.2/FCGI.
I’d
stay away…

I had one site that would constantly be running old code (hanging around
FCGI processes), spawn random FCGI processes when the configuration was
set
properly to only have 3 processes, etc…Another site of mine randomly
fires
off the wrong ActionMailer process if the FCGI’s aren’t restarted every
day
or so (no bug in the code, strictly a weird FCGI thing).

Right now I’ve switched to Lighty/FCGI on a couple of my sites and am
much
happier. If you spawn your FCGI processes from the script/process suite
it
works wonderfully.

I’d love to move to Mongrel/Apache2.2 but right now the machines are in
production and I’d rather not tweak a working system.

On 12/13/06, Long [email protected] wrote:

Long
www.edgesoft.ca/blog/read/2 - rails articles

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