Rails user? Dotdeb now supports Passenger

Let me introduce Passenger : Phusion Passenger™ — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”. Deployment is only a matter of uploading application files. No Ruby (on Rails)-specific server configuration required! Supports both the industry standard Apache web server and the fast and lightweight Nginx web server. Zero maintenance. No port management, server process monitoring or stale file cleanup required. Errors are automatically recovered whenever possible. Designed for performance, stability and security. Phusion Passenger should never crash Apache even in case of crashing Rails applications. Well-documented, for both system administrators and developers! ...

May 7, 2011 · Guillaume Plessis

How to use PHP5 and PHP4 on the same Apache2 server

Since PHP4 is officially dead, it is now urgent to migrate your applications to PHP5, but it’s not that easy and you’ll have to test them before replacing PHP4 by PHP5 on your server. This article will help you to install both PHP4 and PHP5 on your box and swicth easily between them… The problem It is not possible to enable both PHP4 and PHP5 Apache2 modules on the same webserver, it causes shared objects collision. Then, the idea is to enable PHP5 as Apache2 module on one side and PHP4 as CGI on the other side. ...

August 24, 2008 · Guillaume Plessis