freebsd stable - Jul 2007 - HOW TO: Setting up rails for "shared hosting" on a dedicated box. . .?

Hi All,

As you may already know, A partner and I recently purchased a  
dedicated FreeBSD box.  We're currently using Plesk (blech!) to  
manage client domains and such.  I'm curious though as to what the  
best (most manageable) setup/configuration is for supporting Rails  
for each of our clients.  Basically we want to be our own Shared  
Hosting Rails Provider (for lack of a more appropriate phrase) and  
need to figure out the best server configuration.  Just a bit of an  
FYI, everything is already running on Apache2 so I'd need to share  
Apache2 among all programs (e.g. svn, rails, etc);  as opposed to  
splitting tasks between Apache and Apache2.

If you could point me in the right direction it would be most  
appreciated.

Regards,
Michael

On Sunday 22 July 2007 16:32:19 Michael Williams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As you may already know, A partner and I recently purchased a
> dedicated FreeBSD box.  We're currently using Plesk (blech!) to
> manage client domains and such.  I'm curious though as to what the
> best (most manageable) setup/configuration is for supporting Rails
> for each of our clients.  Basically we want to be our own Shared
> Hosting Rails Provider (for lack of a more appropriate phrase) and
> need to figure out the best server configuration.  Just a bit of an
> FYI, everything is already running on Apache2 so I'd need to share
> Apache2 among all programs (e.g. svn, rails, etc);  as opposed to
> splitting tasks between Apache and Apache2.
>
> If you could point me in the right direction it would be most
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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Hi Michael. I don't think that apache is the best choice to handle rails 
applications. However in case of Share hosting environment it would be fine.
I see three choices here:
1) Apache2 + mod_proxy_balancer + mongrel (The best way IMHO)
2) Apache2 + fast_cgi (Could have some problems, due to mostly 
unmaintainable nature of fast_cgi)
3) Apache2 + cgi (Absolutely workable, but VERY slow case)

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