From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-03-12T11:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: convincing a webhost to support ruby

Mark Hubbart wrote:
> They are a large webhost, with a decent-sized server farm. So they would 
> probably be wanting to roll it out on all of them, or none of them. 
> Also, they use the debian packages when possible.
> 
> Any thoughts? Should I suggest mod_ruby instead? How 
> stable/accepted/easy to maintain is fastcgi? Pros/cons I didn't think 
> of? :)

If they run a shared hosting environment (where a single Apache daemon 
is used by all users on the same machine), then fastcgi is probably the 
easier path. I don't know how mod_ruby can be secured in a shared 
environment, but last time I checked mod_perl can't (meaning it can't be 
configured to prevent a user to poke inside Apache and do dangerous things).

OTOH, FastCGI scripts can easily be 'wrapped' using the FastcgiSuexec 
mechanism.

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dave