From: David Heinemeier Hansson Date: 2004-08-16T18:55:58+09:00 Subject: Re: Installing newer Ruby on a shared webserver > Will it still be possible for me to get Rails running with this > configuration? You can easily run Rails in CGI-mode like this, but that's not really suitable for a high-load production site. If you're running with Apache, you want either mod_ruby or FastCGI. The latter sounds more likely in the event of a shared host, but in my experience I've still had to reboot Apache some times to get FCGI back. So... If you're allowed to open ports, even just internally, you can use WEBrick. So imagine you start your Rails application on port 3000, then you can do: ServerName my.rails.com ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:3000/ ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:3000/ And have port 80 calls to my.rails.com forwarded to the app running on port 3000 internally. -- David Heinemeier Hansson, http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby http://www.instiki.org/ -- A No-Step-Three Wiki in Ruby http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain http://www.nextangle.com/ -- Development & Consulting Services