# LiteSpeed Web Server 2.2 with Ruby Rails integration

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534 "2006-08-26T17:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/1 "2006-08-26T17:40:46Z")

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Fellow Rail users and developers,

Right now the easiest way to run Rails is in combination with Mongrel.  
However, it may not be a good idea to expose Mongrel directly to the  
outside world in a high-load production environment. In-addition,  
Mongrel\_cluster + proxy + load balancer have to be used even for a  
single server deployment making the unified setup more complicated than  
needs be.

Yesterday, we released LiteSpeed Web Server 2.2 with major enhancement  
on Rails configuration. With 2.2 release, you only need to tell LSWS the  
Rail application’s root directory and URL bind paths. LSWS will take  
care of everything else. No more manual configuring of FCGI, 404  
handler/rewrite rules, proxy, load balancing, and etc.

Our new wiki for Rails Easy configuration:  
[http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed\_wiki:ruby\_rails\_easy](http://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php?id=litespeed_wiki:ruby_rails_easy)

We believe we have created the easiest way to deploy Rails in a  
production level environment with a track-record for scalability and  
reliability.

Best Regards,  
Xing Li

> **[LiteSpeed | Internet. Accelerated. - LiteSpeed Technologies](https://www.litespeedtech.com/)**
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> LiteSpeed provides one-stop web-acceleration solutions that embrace and advance cutting-edge technologies. Web server, load balancer, cache solutions, and more.

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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/2 "2006-08-26T18:29:06Z")

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Sorry Xing, I think your buddy George already beat you to the post.

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/198f8c9c91ad2e93/3939a37a33c0c3bb?lnk=raot#3939a37a33c0c3bb](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/198f8c9c91ad2e93/3939a37a33c0c3bb?lnk=raot#3939a37a33c0c3bb)

Good news none-the-less.

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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/3 "2006-08-26T18:54:15Z")

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My sincere apologies. I didn’t know the forum post is automatically  
posted to the mailinglist as well. Sorry for the duplicate everyone.

Marston wrote:

> Sorry Xing, I think your buddy George already beat you to the post.
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> [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse\_thread/thread/198f8c9c91ad2e93/3939a37a33c0c3bb?lnk=raot#3939a37a33c0c3bb](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/198f8c9c91ad2e93/3939a37a33c0c3bb?lnk=raot#3939a37a33c0c3bb)
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> Good news none-the-less.

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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/4 "2006-08-27T02:48:10Z")

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Xing Li wrote:

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No need to apologise - ways to deploy Rails applications seem to be  
evolving as fast as Rails itself, and everyone needs to know!

regards

Justin

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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/5 "2006-09-05T04:01:02Z")

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Hi,Xing  
Does LiteSpeed support such function as mod\_deflate in apache2.2 that  
can compress javascripts/stylesheets which have a large size in ajax  
based web application?

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**Author:** ![xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/49beb7/32.png) [@xing](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xing)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/litespeed-web-server-2-2-with-ruby-rails-integration/66534/6 "2006-09-05T17:55:52Z")

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Frank,

LiteSpeed has builtin gzip compression, like mod\_deflate, for your  
dynamic ruby output or static text/css/javascript files. Check the doc:

> **[lswsdocs\_config\_tuning - LiteSpeed Technologies](https://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/webserver/config/tuning/)**
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> LiteSpeed Web Server Documentation - Server Tuning

Gzip compression is configurable at server or vhost level and you also  
set which mime-types to compress.

Xing

Frank wrote:

> Hi,Xing  
> Does LiteSpeed support such function as mod\_deflate in apache2.2 that  
> can compress javascripts/stylesheets which have a large size in ajax  
> based web application?