Deploying your app to an intranet isn't very different from deploying it to the whole internet.
Your app doesn't seem like it's going to get an unreal amount of traffic, so worrying about load balancers and clusters isn't going to be worth your time. I'd take a simple route and install Ubuntu Server on your VM, get MySQL (or whatever RDMBS) installed, setup Apache and finally install Phusion's Passenger. This tutorial should get you started pretty quickly: http://rockmanx.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/ubuntu-804-rails-server-using-passenger-6/ -CJ On Sep 10, 6:51 am, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Sep 2008, at 11:36, Snaggy wrote: > > > > > First, I know nothing about web servers, ports, networks and stuff.. > > I was comfortable with my webrick for development... > > > Now, I developed an app for internal use in my company, we have a > > server and about 50 computers in the network. I can have a virtual > > server for my app, with whatever OS I want. > > > Let's say I'll go for ubuntu, since I'm used to that. > > > What, in a nutshell, do I have to do? > > Install mongrel, open a port(?!?) and make it visible in the > > intranet... > > install apache too?? > > use webrick? why not? > > THe fact that it's a intranet app doesn't really change much - > whatever you read about normal deployments is still ok. > If you run just mongrel or just webrick you will not be able to > process concurrent requests (and it's a bit wasteful to be using them > to serve static content like your images and stylesheets). > Most people are either using apache/nginx to load balance to some > mongrels or increasingly, mod_rails (also known as passenger) > > Gred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
