Possible to run Apache and lighttpd on same server?

Rails Deployment
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I’ve been put in charge of setting up a production server for my
company, but I’m almost a COMPLETE noob with networking or servers. I’ve
run rails apps off of a hosting company before, but now I have to set up
a whole server myself. I’m a little intimidated.

But here’s my question: if I have rails apps running off mongrel and
lighttpd, can I also have static pages being served by Apache on the
same server?

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Hi Sean,

This is a fast moving field - and at the moment, the concensus is
moving away from lighttpd, and towards nginx/mongrel_cluster. You
certainly need more than one mongrel in a production server, so ‘gem
install mongrel_cluster’ will ease the task of running multiple
mongrels. Then use nginx as the front end - it will be quite happy
serving static pages directly, and proxying the rails stuff to your
mongrels. There are a number of useful 'howto’s on this subject:

is a good starting point, with links to other useful pages at the
bottom.

The only reason to run apache would be if you have other non-static
non-rails apps which may need some of apache’s more heavyweight
features - mod-php for example. Even then, your nginx front end can
proxy those urls to apache.

Tony

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On 16 Aug 2007, at 08:02, Tony White wrote:

http://www.gregbenedict.com/2007/07/06/hosting-rails-apps-using-
nginx-and-mongrel-cluster/

if all your vhosts are in the same location you can just include them
with
include /etc/nginx/vhosts/*.conf;

and you can avoid restarting nginx too if you send it

–stop --signal 2

if you want to run php too have a little look at topfunky’s config he
has added some notes on getting it working.

is a good starting point, with links to other useful pages at the
bottom.

The only reason to run apache would be if you have other non-static
non-rails apps which may need some of apache’s more heavyweight
features - mod-php for example. Even then, your nginx front end can
proxy those urls to apache.
webdav is the only thing that has required me to have Apache in the
past,
if you can eliminate Apache you can probably squeeze another mongrel
onto the server too.