Mongrel vs Apache with Mongrel

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Hi,

Is there any point in running Apache in front of Mongrel if you are not running a Mongrel Cluster?

I have a small app with only a few users and currently just using standalone Mongrel. I cant really see any advantage of putting it behind Apache.

Am I missing something?

Cheers Giorgio

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Is there any point in running Apache in front of Mongrel if you are not running a Mongrel Cluster?

I have a small app with only a few users and currently just using standalone Mongrel. I cant really see any advantage of putting it behind Apache.

Am I missing something?

Nope. If you're traffic isn't high enough to warrant having apache serve the static files, there's not much reason to do this.

But without a cluster you can only serve *one* rails request at a time. Again, if traffic isn't high enough this might not be a problem either.

But say your small app is a video archive... one user uploading a video will block all the other rails requests.

But if it's working out for you, there's no reason to change it now.

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Oh, that’s quite nice to know. My current little project is only ever going to have one user at a time, because it’s running on a small intranet, so it’s good that Mongrel will do the job just fine. I might have to have non-programmers starting it up some of the time, and my exe startup program (using NSIS) will be much easier to write.