From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T20:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Running Webrick alongside IIS on port 80

James Britt wrote:
> Prashant Deva wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  I am hosting a couple of asp.net sites on IIS on my server.
>>
>> Now I need to host another site in ruby on the same machine. For this I
>> guess i will need to run the webrick server.
> 
> No.  There are several options for hosting Ruby code.  Plain CGI or 
> FastCGI + [apache|lighhtp], or Mongrel, perhaps.
> 
> Or IIS.  It can server Ruby up as CGI, I believe.
> 
> There's also ActiveScriptRuby:
> 
>  http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlto/9251/ruby/index.html
> 
> which could maybe be used as an ASP language.
> 
> 
How's this for an idea:  run Mongrel on port 80, and proxy requests that 
aren't for the Ruby site to IIS on another port?  I presume IIS can't be 
configured to proxy the same way that Apache can, so why not do it the 
other way around?

-- 
Alex