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The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)

The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Apr 6, 2007 0:24 UTC (Fri) by larsl (guest, #44500)
Parent article: The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)

I've been spending time at work moving Rails apps away from lighttpd and putting them on mongrels behind Apache or Apache+Pound. I've found lighttpd to be pretty unreliable for RoR stuff, and it appears I'm not alone.


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The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Apr 6, 2007 5:10 UTC (Fri) by kmike (guest, #5260) [Link]

You may want to look into nginx - another lightweight multiplexing web server/proxy, and also these resources about setting up the mongrel+nginx combo:
http://kyledev.blogspot.com/search/label/nginx
http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/28/ruby-performance-results/

The lighttpd Web Server (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Apr 6, 2007 10:29 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Nginx is great - if you can live more-or-less without documentation...

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