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

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 14 12:12:45 EDT 2009

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, David Storrs <david.storrs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?

My own server

>
>>
>>>
>>> 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?

rc.local

Jay

>
> --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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://teammccarthy.org/jay
>>
>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>



-- 
Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93


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