I have no experience with nginx, but someone else on this list said it was common, so that'd probably work.
If you plan to go that route eventually anyway, I'd just do that now, because what you need to do to get your mongrel to answer on port 80 will change completely in the presence of nginx or apache vs. now with a bare mongrel. So the work you're doing now to figure out how to get mongrel to run bare on 80 seems kind of unproductive. I don't honestly have any specifics in mind as far as problems from running a bare mongrel on port 80 in production. Maybe others on the list do. Just that that doesn't seem to be the popular or recommended way to do it, so you might run into weird problems that others don't. As you've noticed, one is that you will need to run the mongrel as root, which is really pretty undesirable. Or come up with some custom solution to start mongrel as root and attach it to 80 then exec it as another user. But now you're creating weird solutions just to get mongrel to run bare on 80, when if you're planning on running it under nginx or apache anyway you won't ultimately need, so why deal with it unneccesarily? Jonathan James Testa wrote: > Jonathan, > At the moment I am only running mongrel, but we are > just beta testing. > > 1. What sort of headaches do you foresee just running mongrel? Do > you mean from a load balancing, high traffic point of view? > 2. I was planning on running nginx as the front end. Do you see any > issues > with nginx vs Apache? > > > Jim > > Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > >> I really do still think you're going down the wrong path running mongrel >> directly on 80, instead of sending it through a proxy on your web >> server. I think it's going to cause you headaches in the long run. Do >> you have any web server running on that machine? What web server? Is >> there any reason you are choosing not to go the route of having apache >> (or other specialized) web server be a front end to your mongrel? >> >> Jonathan >> >> Kirk Haines wrote: >> >>> Kirk Haines >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mongrel-users mailing list >>> Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users >>> >>> >> -- >> Jonathan Rochkind >> Digital Services Software Engineer >> The Sheridan Libraries >> Johns Hopkins University >> 410.516.8886 >> rochkind (at) jhu.edu >> > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
