On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 10:33, Michael Metz wrote: > I've read a bit about fastcgi, and wondered if it might be an > interesting solution for e.g. running php in a user-switched environment > or running ruby-on-rails etc. > > But I wonder why nobody (searched on Google) seems to use CentOS with > mod_fastcgi for Apache 2.x. Fastcgi hasn't been updated for a while. It does work with Centos. You can find directions for installing Request Tracker under RHEL with fastcgi here: http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?RHEL4InstallGuide and it works equally well with Centos. > And I also wonder why people actually using Apache 2.x and ruby-on-rails > with CentOS did run a lighthttpd-fastcgi inbetween and reverse-proxying > requests from Apache to lighthttpd to actually forward them to RoR > running as fastcgi. > > Could sombody please give me a hint? I don't know anything about this particular project but there are several reasons to use a reverse-proxy front end. One is to hide the fact that you need different program instances perhaps running under different uids or with conflicting options to serve different parts of a site. Another would be to allow caching of parts of the output generated by the real server. Also, if you have clients connecting over a slow link, using a lightweight proxy can release the memory-intense server connection quickly while dribbling the results back to the client. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com