This blog has been running on lighttpd since last week. So far it seems to be the best setup for running Rails app. Of course everyone in the Rails world alread knew this but breaking the Apache habit after 8 years is quite hard. However, I’m convinced now that Rails on top of lighttpd + [...]
Well, it turns out Apache2 + SCGI is not a good match, at least not the way I set it up, by following all the (scarce!) documentation on the subject. I used the SCGI Rails Runner package for running. The benefits of having better control of the Rails processes and the supposed easy clustering setup [...]
Switched Typo (this blog) to use SCGI on Apache. “SCGI is a replacement for the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) protocol. It is a standard for applications to interface with HTTP servers. It is similar to FastCGI but is designed to be easier to implement”.
I was getting lots of random Error 500 on a new server [...]