Rails - May 2005 - Apache + FastCGI (+Windows) -- Who has this working well?

I''ve seen the recent posts about problems with FastCGI and Apache, and 
its hard for me to believe that this is universal. Surely there must be 
someone for whom this is working well.

I am *very* interested in finding out because next month I am finally 
going to start working on the One-Click Ruby Server that I''ve 
periodically mentioned. Its looks like I''ll be using Apache, at least
in
the beginning (I''d like to use Lighttpd, but that''s a another
story).

Anyway, if I''m in for nothing but headaches with Apache + FastCGI, I 
like to know. But if someone... anyone... has this working 
satisfactorily (particularly under Windows), then I''d like to know.

Curt

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> I''ve seen the recent posts about problems with FastCGI and Apache,
and
> its hard for me to believe that this is universal. Surely there must be 
> someone for whom this is working well.
I have it working ''well'', but I''m only using it for
dev on my thinkpad
(win 2003). Are you talking about for production use? Here are the basics:

Apache (from XXAMP): 2.0.53
Ruby: 1.8.2 (from the one-click installer)
FastCGI: I went through a long install / messing around process. I 
started with the Apache/FastCGI package on the Rails site, but that 
didn''t work. I ended up hunting around for awhile and eventually found 
binaries and other tweaks on my own, which I got working. Since then 
(about 4 weeks ago) it''s been fine for me.

This is not through cygwin, though I have that running as well.

I eventually will be running Rails sites on my colo''d win 2003 box, but
not yet.

I can send configs, and try to backtrace where I found the binaries if 
you want.

Matt

(bricolage)
> 
> I am *very* interested in finding out because next month I am finally 
> going to start working on the One-Click Ruby Server that I''ve 
> periodically mentioned. Its looks like I''ll be using Apache, at
least in
> the beginning (I''d like to use Lighttpd, but that''s a
another story).
> 
> Anyway, if I''m in for nothing but headaches with Apache + FastCGI,
I
> like to know. But if someone... anyone... has this working 
> satisfactorily (particularly under Windows), then I''d like to
know.
> 
> Curt
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Matt Pelletier wrote:
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> 
>> I''ve seen the recent posts about problems with FastCGI and
Apache, and
>> its hard for me to believe that this is universal. Surely there must 
>> be someone for whom this is working well.
> 
> 
> I have it working ''well'', but I''m only using it
for dev on my thinkpad
> (win 2003). Are you talking about for production use? Here are the basics:
Development is good, production even better.
> Apache (from XXAMP): 2.0.53
> Ruby: 1.8.2 (from the one-click installer)
> FastCGI: I went through a long install / messing around process. I 
> started with the Apache/FastCGI package on the Rails site, but that 
> didn''t work. I ended up hunting around for awhile and eventually
found
> binaries and other tweaks on my own, which I got working. Since then 
> (about 4 weeks ago) it''s been fine for me.
> 
> This is not through cygwin, though I have that running as well.
> 
> I eventually will be running Rails sites on my colo''d win 2003
box, but
> not yet.
> 
> I can send configs, and try to backtrace where I found the binaries if 
> you want.
If you would, I''d greatly appreciate it.

I''m still interested in getting feedback from a crosss section of other
people, too. So, don''t let one success story stop you from sharing your
experiences.

Unless I find a show-stopper, I''m planning to do an XAMPP add-on for 
Windows, Linux, and OSX that would add Ruby, Rails, FastCGI, and a 
Rails-based admin service.

Curt

> Matt
> 
> (bricolage)
> 
>>
>> I am *very* interested in finding out because next month I am finally 
>> going to start working on the One-Click Ruby Server that I''ve 
>> periodically mentioned. Its looks like I''ll be using Apache,
at least
>> in the beginning (I''d like to use Lighttpd, but
that''s a another story).
>>
>> Anyway, if I''m in for nothing but headaches with Apache +
FastCGI, I
>> like to know. But if someone... anyone... has this working 
>> satisfactorily (particularly under Windows), then I''d like to
know.
>>
>> Curt
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
> 
> 
>

On 5/20/05, Curt Hibbs <curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''ve seen the recent posts about problems with FastCGI and Apache,
and
> its hard for me to believe that this is universal. Surely there must be
> someone for whom this is working well.
> 
> I am *very* interested in finding out because next month I am finally
> going to start working on the One-Click Ruby Server that I''ve
> periodically mentioned. Its looks like I''ll be using Apache, at
least in
> the beginning (I''d like to use Lighttpd, but that''s a
another story).
> 
> Anyway, if I''m in for nothing but headaches with Apache + FastCGI,
I
> like to know. But if someone... anyone... has this working
> satisfactorily (particularly under Windows), then I''d like to
know.
I have an application running on Win2k with Apache (xampp) and the
ruby for apache thing.

The application is a frontend for some source printing so it''s just a
file upload + shell scripts.  No database.

The load is pretty light but It''s always ''just
worked'' for me,  no
crashes, no weird timeouts.  Just long running flawless operation.
> Curt
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