# Rails/Radiant Installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [October 28, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-radiant-installation/73931 "2006-10-28T03:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-radiant-installation/73931/1 "2006-10-28T03:34:51Z")
Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone can give me some recommendations + pointers on the best way to get Rails and Radiant running on a clients new webserver. I’m fairly new to the rails stuff, this Radiant site is the first thing I’ve done with rails, so I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to installing rails, etc. I have been developing their site locally on my iMac using Locomotive - Lighttpd + MySQL, but their server is a Dell running a recent Fedora Core. I know it has Apache+PHP+MySQL on it, but they have given me access to install whatever I need. The server will probably only be running the one Rails/Radiant site. What I need to know is, what is the best setup to go with as far as webservers, eg i have seen tutorials on getting Fedora running with Apache2+FastCGI, or with Lighttpd. I have seen more recent articles that say Mongrel is better than Lighttpd, but i haven’t seen tutorials on getting Mongrel running on Fedora… Any suggestions/technical information on the best way to approach this? I realise this may be better directed at a more general Rails list, but if there is a configuration that works good with Radiant, that would be appreciated… Also, once i get it running, what will be the best way to transfer my development site to the new server? Cheers, and thanks for any help… Michael ---
**Author:** ![roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-radiant-installation/73931/2 "2006-10-28T19:31:43Z")
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:34:22 +0800 “Michael R.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Core. I know it has Apache+PHP+MySQL on it, but they have given me > access to install whatever I need. The server will probably only be > running the one Rails/Radiant site. ``` I really recommend the use of lighttpd and FastCGI. It's almost ``` trivial to set up. ``` I use the spawn-fcgi program to start the rails app with the user's ``` permissions, then just point lighttpd to the socket file I create. The user that lighttpd runs under will need wr access to that socket. ``` If you want, I can send you the little ruby script I use to spawn the ``` fcgi process and a snippet of my lighttpd config. This is the only configuration I have been happy with. –TimH ---
**Author:** ![roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roa)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-radiant-installation/73931/3 "2006-10-28T23:44:02Z")
Depending on the size of the site I’ve had pretty good success just using mod\_proxy with Apache. You just add a few ProxyPass lines to the httpd.conf file to proxy requests to your rails (Radiant) application running Mongrel on another port (3000 for example). Works pretty easy. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/apache.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/apache.html) To transfer the development site to the production server, I usually just FTP the contents to my production server, run rake db:migrate to setup the tables and then just mysqldump the data from the development DB to the production one. — Michael R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > comes to installing rails, etc. > > Any suggestions/technical information on the best > > Cheers, and thanks for any help… > > Michael > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: > [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) * * * Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business ([http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com](http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com)) ---
**Author:** ![roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@roa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roa)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-radiant-installation/73931/4 "2006-10-29T23:58:04Z")
On 10/28/06, Michael R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have been developing their site locally on my iMac using Locomotive > > - Lighttpd + MySQL, but their server is a Dell running a recent Fedora > Core. I know it has Apache+PHP+MySQL on it, but they have given me > access to install whatever I need. The server will probably only be > running the one Rails/Radiant site. Add my name to the list of happy mongrel users with an Apache front-end using mod\_proxy/mod\_rewrite.