[BNM] Apache / Apache 2 / FastCGI / Lighttpd advice

[Martin Tomes]

Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:
> My current webserver setup is Debian Sarge with Apache2 and Ruby & PHP
> both run from FastCGI.
> 
> The main box is crashing on a random basis and I'm now ready to point
> the finger at Apache2 + FastCGI, which anecdotally is known to be
> "unstable at times".

Have you tried Mongrel?  Apache 2.2 plus mongrel works for me (on Fedora 
Core 5). http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ has articles on various ways to 
use it.

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