platform

phusion is definitely better.

things to do, near as i can tell:

- gem install passenger
  - install the apache conf file, with the caveat that it ought to point to the public/ directory
  - we will have to somehow install mod_rails for apache (this may be a harder limitation perhaps, since at the moment we run the platform with fastcgi (which is a pain!)

cpg wrote:

ohusion is definitely better.

things to do, near as i can tell:

- gem install passenger
- install the apache conf file, with the caveat that it ought to point to the public/ directory
- we will have to somehow install mod_rails for apache (this may be a harder limitation perhaps, since at the moment we run the platform with fastcgi (which is a pain!)

I got my "radblog.conf" file create and app placed in /var/hda/web-apps/radblog on my system. Attached is a copy of my conf file for your review. I'm running into problems, though, where "AddHandler" isn't being allowed from the public/.htaccess file that was included with my RadiantCMS generated site.

well, i started to take a look at passenger (with an eye on fedora 11, on a test box) and i am dismayed that things are at a standstill even now. and the issues are not only technical, there are licensing issues:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696

installing it in a script via the amahi installer appears to be pretty hard, although the redeeming feature is that perhaps this may work (as root):

yum -y install httpd-devel
  gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc passenger
  passenger-install-apache2-module -a

the -a is required to make it automatic, cause otherwise it's interactive (!).

however it does require g++ and all the dev tools and libraries.

alternatives¶

not sure what alternatives we have for deploying multiple apps

- fastcgi? is it any better in f11 - advantage is that we have it already in f10
 - mongrel? not so sure to have to manage one independent process per server
 - nginx ?
 - ?