On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Pete DeLaurentis wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been chasing a problem in my web-stack: Lighttpd -> Mongrel ->
> Rails, and found a problem with the interaction of Lighttpd and
> Mongrel.
>
> If a request takes more than 5 seconds, Lighty will retry it - and
> then the requests / responses get mixed up in Lighty and it returns a
> bad response to the client. Not good.
>
> I'm convinced that the problem is completely on the Lighttpd side.
>
> Why I'm posting to the group:
>
> 1. I was wondering if anyone has had success using Lighttpd's 1.5.0
> mod_proxy_core to talk to pack of Mongrels. (Maybe there is a
> different setting I need in Mongrel or in Lighty)
>
> 2. I'm also considering nginx and wanted to see if anyone recommended
> using this with Mongrel in a production environment. For me, a
> crucial capability is X-Sendfile (or something similiar).
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Pete
Nginx works much better then lighttpd for proxying to mongrels. Nginx
has X-Accell-Redirect which is basically same thing as X-Send_file.
Cheers-
- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
-- Founder & Software Architect
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- EngineYard.com
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