# WEBrick vs fcgi

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-vs-fcgi/109416>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 14, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-vs-fcgi/109416 "2007-07-14T15:01:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-vs-fcgi/109416/1 "2007-07-14T15:01:00Z")

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Hi All,

I’m new to RoR apps this week, just installed redMine, and have a  
couple of questions.

Should I be running this with WEBrick, or something else? I read  
somewhere that WEBrick should only be a temporary solution.

I’ve already started the WEBrick daemon because I thought that was the  
only way. Now how do I stop it? I’m on a shared server, I don’t have  
root access. Ctrl-C didn’t work for me.

Thanks,  
Chris

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**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-vs-fcgi/109416/2 "2007-07-14T18:01:06Z")

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> Should I be running this with WEBrick, or something else? I read  
> somewhere that WEBrick should only be a temporary solution.

You have a couple of options for live application FCGI or Mongrel (&  
Mongrel Cluster). Mongrel is the preferred way of doing things at the  
moment (I’ve found it a bit more stable that FCGI, but they both work  
pretty well)

[http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/index.html](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/index.html)

If you get your application setup with Capistrano you can’t really go  
wrong when deploying/updating your application.

[http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17)

Cheers  
Luke