Tag Archives: configuration

Finishing off my base Ruby on Rails install

So I got sidetracked with Apache in my last post.  Here I’m going to finish up the install basics sans automated deployment.  At the moment I’m just jumping onto the server and going:

git pull
mongrel_rails cluster::restart

All my server is showing at the moment is this.  It’s amazing I know and people will talk about it for [...]

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Configuring and watching Apache.

You may have noted that I installed the apache2-mpm-worker package rather than apache2-mpm-prefork even though I’m using a VPS to host the site.  If you google them you’ll find recommendations to only use worker on big beefed-up servers.  The reason for my decision is described in the first paragraph on worker’s webpage:
By using threads to [...]

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