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| author | David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> | 2008-11-24 11:05:49 +0100 |
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| committer | David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> | 2008-11-24 11:05:49 +0100 |
| commit | 8b14686892f278cc73c84bd7c13cabef2ccfeb96 (patch) | |
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Updated docs to stop talking exclusively about lighttpd and clarify a few other things
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diff --git a/railties/README b/railties/README index 2af0fb1133..37ec8ea211 100644 --- a/railties/README +++ b/railties/README @@ -36,32 +36,19 @@ link:files/vendor/rails/actionpack/README.html. == Web Servers -By default, Rails will try to use Mongrel and lighttpd if they are installed, otherwise -Rails will use WEBrick, the webserver that ships with Ruby. When you run script/server, -Rails will check if Mongrel exists, then lighttpd and finally fall back to WEBrick. This ensures -that you can always get up and running quickly. +By default, Rails will try to use Mongrel if it's are installed when started with script/server, otherwise Rails will use WEBrick, the webserver that ships with Ruby. But you can also use Rails +with a variety of other web servers. Mongrel is a Ruby-based webserver with a C component (which requires compilation) that is suitable for development and deployment of Rails applications. If you have Ruby Gems installed, getting up and running with mongrel is as easy as: <tt>gem install mongrel</tt>. More info at: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org -If Mongrel is not installed, Rails will look for lighttpd. It's considerably faster than -Mongrel and WEBrick and also suited for production use, but requires additional -installation and currently only works well on OS X/Unix (Windows users are encouraged -to start with Mongrel). We recommend version 1.4.11 and higher. You can download it from -http://www.lighttpd.net. +Say other Ruby web servers like Thin and Ebb or regular web servers like Apache or LiteSpeed or +Lighttpd or IIS. The Ruby web servers are run through Rack and the latter can either be setup to use +FCGI or proxy to a pack of Mongrels/Thin/Ebb servers. -And finally, if neither Mongrel or lighttpd are installed, Rails will use the built-in Ruby -web server, WEBrick. WEBrick is a small Ruby web server suitable for development, but not -for production. - -But of course its also possible to run Rails on any platform that supports FCGI. -Apache, LiteSpeed, IIS are just a few. For more information on FCGI, -please visit: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/FastCGI - - -== Apache .htaccess example +== Apache .htaccess example for FCGI/CGI # General Apache options AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi |