Installation of ruby on rails with Apache 2.2 and Mongrel on Fedora Core 6


Here is the step by step installation of ruby on rails production environment in Fedora core 6

install Fedora 6 (with out apache / ruby / ruby gems /mysql)

download required packages from the appropriate sites (ie)

1.Apache 2.2.4 - Index of /apache/httpd

2.ruby language - RubyForge: Welcome

3.Mysql - MySQL AB :: Developer Zone

Apache installation

tar zxvf httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz

cd httpd-2.2.4

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 \
--enable-so --enable-modules=all \ --enable-mods-shared=all –enable-proxy

make

make install

cd ..

rm -rf httpd-2.2.3

rm httpd-2.2.3.tar.gz

Ruby Installation

tar xvfz rubygems-0.9.0.tgz

cd rubygems-0.9.0.tgz

ruby setup.rb

cd ..

rm -rf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz

rm rubygems-0.9.0.tgz

Installation of Mysql

yum install ruby-devel mysql mysql-devel mysql-server

service mysqld restart

mysqladmin -u root password '(passwd)'

Rails Installation

gem install rails --include-dependencies

gem update --system

Install Mongrel

gem install daemons gem_plugin mongrel mongrel_cluster

/usr/sbin/adduser -r mongrel

for testing mongrel type this in app root

mongrel_rails start

For configuring mongrel cluster type the command on the app root dir


mongrel_rails cluster::configure -e production -p 8000 -N 3 -c /var/www/$path -a 127.0.0.1 \
--user mongrel --group mongrel


Regards,

G.Murugan

What is the memory hit on the server for each additional Mongrel BalancerMember that you add? Do you have any numbers on memory usage with a setup like this? Or, do you have any numbers on how many hits a server with this configuration can handle?

thanks

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