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diff --git a/railties/README b/railties/README index 37ec8ea211..eef062c39a 100644 --- a/railties/README +++ b/railties/README @@ -36,17 +36,22 @@ link:files/vendor/rails/actionpack/README.html. == Web Servers -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. +By default, Rails will try to use Mongrel if it's 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 -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. +Other ruby web servers exist which can run your rails application, however script/server does +not search for them or start them. These include Thin, Ebb, and Apache with mod_rails. + +For production use, often a web/proxy server such as Apache, LiteSpeed, Lighttpd or IIS is +deployed as the front-end server, with the chosen ruby web server running in the back-end +and receiving the proxied requests via one of several protocols (HTTP, CGI, FCGI). + == Apache .htaccess example for FCGI/CGI |