I have a similar setup and what I did was open an Amazon S3 account and use attachment_fu to push the uploads to it. So my servers can access it all from a single point now.
Raul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Ferrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:05 AM Subject: [Rails-deploy] nginx/mongrel with multiple machine deployment > > > I am in the process of migrating an app that currently resides on a > single hardware server (running pound, nginx as an asset host, > memcached, mongrel and mysql) to a new group of xen virtual machines: an > appserver running the mongrels, a webserver running nginx (which will be > handling the proxying now as well) and memcached, and a database server > running mysql. > > One of the apps I am moving handles file uploads and I realize that I > now have to account for the fact that uploaded content should reside on > the webserver rather than the appserver since I have a rewrite rule in > my nginx config to check for static content before proxying to rails. > Also, maybe I'm thinking myself in a knot, my current rails code does > some post-processing of the upload but I am not clear which server > (rails or nginx) handles the upload and when... Could someone shed some > light on this for me? > > My first thought regarding the uploaded file's final destination is to > export the public directory via NFS on the webserver and mount it on the > appserver but I am leery of using NFS, partially because I haven't ever > and partially because of its reputation for performance issues. > > Is there a recommended way of handling this? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
