On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 10:33, Michael Metz wrote:
> I've read a bit about fastcgi, and wondered if it might be an
> interesting solution for e.g. running php in a user-switched environment
> or running ruby-on-rails etc.
>
> But I wonder why nobody (searched on Google) seems to use CentOS with
> mod_fastcgi for Apache 2.x.
Fastcgi hasn't been updated for a while. It does work with
Centos. You can find directions for installing Request Tracker
under RHEL with fastcgi here:
http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?RHEL4InstallGuide
and it works equally well with Centos.
> And I also wonder why people actually using Apache 2.x and ruby-on-rails
> with CentOS did run a lighthttpd-fastcgi inbetween and reverse-proxying
> requests from Apache to lighthttpd to actually forward them to RoR
> running as fastcgi.
>
> Could sombody please give me a hint?
I don't know anything about this particular project but there
are several reasons to use a reverse-proxy front end. One is
to hide the fact that you need different program instances
perhaps running under different uids or with conflicting
options to serve different parts of a site. Another would
be to allow caching of parts of the output generated by
the real server. Also, if you have clients connecting over
a slow link, using a lightweight proxy can release the
memory-intense server connection quickly while dribbling
the results back to the client.
--
Les Mikesell
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