Hi All,
After upgrading to 1.1 + on a production VPS which was using a
combination
of Apache 1.33 + SCGI serving up Rails 1.0 app across multiple domains I
ran
into some major instability problems which I could not pin down
(although
some very suspicious POSTs were showing up in the log files that can’t
have
been good). As an experiment I went with the new way of thinking Mongrel
and
it cleared up the instability issues instantly, had one rails app
running
for 2 weeks with no crashing (SCGI was falling over every couple of
days)
Absolutely painless setup; the only complication was I wanted the
PreserveHost directive running on 1.33 which required patching the build
of
Apache.
I’ll post up a full how to for those CPanel users out there on my blog
late
tonight…
Cheers
Rowan
http://raili.st/
Absolutely painless setup; the only complication was I wanted the
PreserveHost directive running on 1.33 which required patching the build
of Apache.
What did you need that directive for? Are you serving different vhosts?
Rowan H. <rails@…> writes:
Hi All, After upgrading to 1.1 + on a production VPS which was using a
combination of Apache 1.33 + SCGI serving up Rails 1.0 app across
multiple
domains I ran into some major instability problems which I could not pin
down
(although some very suspicious POSTs were showing up in the log files
that
can’t have been good). As an experiment I went with the new way of
thinking
Mongrel and it cleared up the instability issues instantly, had one
rails app
running for 2 weeks with no crashing (SCGI was falling over every couple
of
days)
Absolutely painless setup; the only complication was I wanted the
PreserveHost directive running on 1.33 which required patching the build
of
Apache.I’ll post up a full how to for those CPanel users out there on my
blog
late tonight…
+1 agreed. Zed has done a fabulous job making the deployment of a rails
app
via Mongrel as easy and painless as possible.
Extra props for actually acknowledging that there is a subset of us
using
Windows (some of us have no choice, guys!) by providing a dead simple
install-
rails-app-as-a-service script.
Well done, sir.
In a word - yes 
PreserveHost isn’t in the standard 1.33 mod_proxy
source.
Cheers
Rowan
http://raili.st
Thanks guys. But, where’s my Ferrari? 
Zed
Check out Zed’s replies in the “A rails app server, maybe” thread.
It’s sick just how smart that dude is.
Pat M. wrote:
Check out Zed’s replies in the “A rails app server, maybe” thread.
It’s sick just how smart that dude is.
Can you provide a link to this thread ? The ruby-forum search can’t
find it and neither can google
A.
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:31 +0200, Alan F. wrote:
Pat M. wrote:
Check out Zed’s replies in the “A rails app server, maybe” thread.
It’s sick just how smart that dude is.
Can you provide a link to this thread ? The ruby-forum search can’t
find it and neither can google
Nah, it just looks like I’m smart because I can type fast. The 11th
finger is what gives me an advantage.
Zed
I wish Zed would start blogging/writing again. 
Joe