On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Abder-rahman Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > Just have a small question especially I'm new to RoR and web > programming. When we say that the application runs on a web server. Does > that mean for example when I run my application at: > http://localhost:3000, the web server is my local machine?
Yes. > And, since a server is a bundle of HW + SW, what is the SW part of the > server? > > Is it only "Mongrel"? If that's what you have installed and are using, yes. > Can you kindly explain what exactly is a web server? You could google 'what is a web server?' for some existing answers :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] twitter: @hassan -- 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.
