How i can deploy ROR on a Win 2k server?

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Id like to start developing in ROR but first i need to understand if i can deploy it on my production server running windows 2k server.At the moment i'm using a mongrel process on a port linked to a website redirection in IIS but this means i need to start a single mongrel process every website hosted. Is there a faster, more reliable way to host ROR on a Win 2k Server?

Thansk in advance

Fausto

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Nothing more reliable at the moment than mongrel.

Rails is not PHP, nor .Net. You need a minimum of one mongrel instance per application, almost always 2 per app, and sometimes more. Deployment on Windows requires (currently) Mongrel, a load balancer like Pen or Apache 2.2 + mod_proxy_balance, a rewriter like ISAPI_Rewrite and an IIS reverse proxy like the plugin I wrote.

It sounds strange, but that’s how it works. You have lots of ports on a server, you can easily host lots of apps.

I support lots of people on Windows servers, but I still recommend that you serve your apps from Linux. It will perform much better if you expect high volume.

I have articles on my site ( http://www.napcs.com/) that give you various paths for setting things up, and I am contributing to the deployment book as well. Not sure when that will be out though.

You, or anyone else, can feel free to contact me regarding this issue.

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Hi brian, thanks for your reply. I have already checked your website and i followed some of the guide. At the moment we have an enterprise server running on 2k server where all the customers's website are running and i choose to try the IIS+mongrel solution you wrote. I had some problem with the RewriteProxy method from which i get en error executing the cscript proxycfg.vbs -r. Here is the sequence of action i took: - Installed trial version of ISAPI_Rewrite Helicon - Stopped IIS 5 (on XP PRO SP2) - i run cscript proxycfg.vbs -r and i got en error in cscript proxycfg.vbs(95, 15) after that i added manually the isapi filter to the default website but the RewriteProxy isnt working.

Any ideas?

thanks

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Try asking in the Helicon support forums. I’ve not seen that but my guess is that you’re missing a dependency that the script needs to finish its work.