On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 There should be any particular problems. Just be aware of the limitations. It will work fine for simple testing, though. > 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? Mongrel has support for changing it's userid/group after starting. So, no custom solution is necessary. Kirk Haines _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
