[plt-scheme] Using the PLT web server in production

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On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM, David Storrs  
> <david.storrs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A few questions on using the web server in production:
>>
>> 1) Who has experience using the PLT web server in production?  Any  
>> stories
>> to share?  e.g., performance characteristics, security setup,  
>> integration
>> with other software (e.g. Squid, Varnish), etc
>
> I have and Noel has, at least. I don't have particular stories that I
> haven't used to improve the software.
>
>>
>> 2) Can you recommend a particular (preferably inexpensive) hosting  
>> service?
>
> No idea.

Did you run it on a server you / your company owned and managed or what?

>
>>
>> 3) Does the server automatically daemonize on its own, or does that  
>> need to
>> be configured?
>
> It does not. I always write a shell script.

Which you then trigger from inetd?

--Dks

>
>>
>> 4) So far, the only docs I've seen that relate to the server are  
>> these:
>>     http://docs.plt-scheme.org/continue/index.html
>>     http://docs.plt-scheme.org/web-server-internal/index.html
>>     http://docs.plt-scheme.org/web-server/index.html
>>
>>     Are there any others that I should be aware of?
>>
>> 5)  Can anyone recommend a good document / blog post / etc that  
>> talks about
>> how to setup the web server in a shared hosting environment?  The
>> web-server-internal docs have a brief section on how to put Apache  
>> in front
>> of PLT ( http://tinyurl.com/llbk3b ) which is useful, but it  
>> assumes that
>> you have full control of the environment and can add RewriteRules  
>> to the
>> apache config--this isn't true on a shared platform.
>
> No idea.
>
> Jay
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Dks
>>
>>
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