In my case, I did that because I don't have Apache 2.2 installed, but I wanted to use Apache for vhosting. So, I use the mod_proxy built into Apache to route among my various apps and static sites on the machine, and in the case of an app with mongrel_cluster I front it with Pen and route the requests to Pen and on to mongrel_cluster. Pen is just so easy to use... I was using Pound previously, but I haven't been very impressed with Pound's configuration options. And when it goes wrong it's hard to tell why.
In the future I might chuck Pen in favor of _balancer, but I've been avoiding dealing with installing Apache2.2 from Debian Experimental or compiling from source.
So far the setup seems to work fine, but it would be nice to have the extra layer out of there just for ease of management. Once Lighty goes 1.5 I might go back to that, as well.
Matt
On 11/14/06, Mark Uhrmacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi everyone,Recently, I've been reading about different deployment environments for rails and mongrel. One configuration I've started seeing is apache -> pen -> mongrel cluster. See http://errtheblog.com/post/35 as an example.Can someone explain to me the benefit of using Apache and Pen as opposed to either using apache as a load balancer or pen by itself?Thanks,Mark
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