From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T06:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby VS PHP

On Monday 18 July 2005 2:55 pm, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> RW> how can providers sell virtual domains with mod_ruby, when you (their
> RW> customers) must be able to restart the webserver all the time?
>
> They expect that you never to development on the webserver (and they
> did not configure it very well). It's still impossible to use mod_ruby
> in a shared simple apache environment, but with FCGI you should never
> need to restart apache.

There is a simple workaround.

Everyone gets their own Apache server running on a specific port.  There is 
then a server running on port 80 that proxies requests to the private 
servers.

So they can do anything that they want in their own environment.

Once upon a time I ran a corporate development network like this.  Each 
developer had his own sandbox, but it was all on a shared server and the 
server on port 80 proxied everything.  Worked great.


Kirk Haines