[Nitro] Nitro on Apache

[Robert Mela]

fcgi is not worth the trouble.

I suggest running Nitro standalone and using Apache's reverse proxying 
features as a front-end.

With Apache 2.2 there's mod_proxy_balancer, which is *very* nice.

With both Apache 2.0 and 2.2 you can use mod_rewrite like this:


<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName robmela.com
  ServerAlias www.robmela.com
  ServerAlias blog.robmela.com
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/admin(.*) https://nb.robmela.com/admin$1 [L,R]
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9001/$1 [L,P]
  #ProxyRequests off
  #ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9001/
  #ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9001/
  #ProxyPreserveHost on
</VirtualHost>

There is one caveat for heavily loaded sites or applications with 
long-running pages... which I'll get into later as I'm writing an Apache 
/ Mongrel how-to that covers some gotchas.

Arne Brasseur wrote:
> I'm for the first time trying to actually deploy a Nitro app on my 
> shared hosting account. I'm trying to use FastCGI since that's what I 
> had success with using Rails. It took some tweaking of the FastCGI 
> adapter, it seems unmaintained.
>
> I'm mainly stealing ideas from Rails here, I created a dispatch.fcgi 
> that just loads Nitro, sets the mode to :live and requires app.rb. If I 
> run it gives the two green lines :
>
> 03/10 05:13:11  INFO: Og uses the Mysql store.
> 03/10 05:13:11  INFO: Starting Fastcgi server in live mode, listening at 
> 0.0.0.0:9000
>
> My .htaccess should be good. Now if I visit the site I get a server 500 
> error. The error log mentions :
>
> [Wed Oct 03 05:11:59 2007] [error] [client 61.225.17.58] FastCGI: 
> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/home/ar
> nebrasseur/subdomains/vocab/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> Have other people gotten this to work? Do I have other options having 
> only limited control over the apache configuration?
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> (ab)
>
>   

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