[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Black
You can have more than one domain per IP address served by different applications with Nginx up front.  You can swap from one instance of an application to another (semi-seamless upgrades) with Nginx up front.  You can front many different Lift instances (some running on other machines) with

[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2010-01-04 Thread David Pollak
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Alex Black a...@alexblack.ca wrote: I'm intrigued by the Nginx, could you tell us more about what the advantages of using Nginx as well as Jetty instead of Jetty? You can have more than one domain per IP address served by different applications with Nginx up

[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2008-11-15 Thread Tim Perrett
I'm not trying to load-balance.  Upstream seems to be oriented to load balancing, which is not the goal.  Did I miss something? Sorry for the late reply - indeed it is for load balancing etc; I was working on the presumption you might have more than one back-end jetty - if not then sure, what

[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2008-11-14 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Tim Perrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good to see that your using nginx dave... It's a rocking front end. One thing, what made you use proxy_pass rather than upstream ? I'm not trying to load-balance. Upstream seems to be oriented to load balancing, which is

[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2008-11-11 Thread Tim Perrett
Good to see that your using nginx dave... It's a rocking front end. One thing, what made you use proxy_pass rather than upstream ? Cheers, Tim Sent from my iPhone On 11 Nov 2008, at 21:11, Viktor Klang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the how-to Dave! Looks splendid :) On Tue, Nov 11,

[Lift] Re: Simple deployment of Lift apps on Jetty/Nginx

2008-11-11 Thread Tim Perrett
Upstream let's you specify a bunch of backend servers, say you had 3 nodes running your app in a cluster, upstream can manage and load balence the sending of requests to those backends. I'm on my iPhone right now, so can't copy and paste a link - check out the code mongers wiki... I'll