Re: Web server

Hassan Schroeder
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:38:31 -0000

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Abder-rahman Ali
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Just have a small question especially I''m new to RoR and web
> programming. When we say that the application runs on a web server. Does
> that mean for example when I run my application at:
> http://localhost:3000, the web server is my local machine?

Yes.

> And, since a server is a bundle of HW + SW, what is the SW part of the
> server?
>
> Is it only "Mongrel"?

If that''s what you have installed and are using, yes.

> Can you kindly explain what exactly is a web server?

You could google ''what is a web server?'' for some existing
answers :-)

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