Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd¶

A document is available at http://old.bougyman.com/RailsonDebian.html which contains step by step instructions on setting rails up with lighttpd. A more abbreviated version (different author, i believe jawong) is available at http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Lighttpd .
May you have happy Railing.

Lighttpd 1.5¶

Get cleanurl.lua from http://nordisch.org./.

$HTTP["host"] == "rails-app.example.org" {
    server.document-root = "/path/to/rails-application/public/" 
    magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( "/etc/lighttpd/cleanurl.lua" )

    $HTTP["url"] == "/dispatch.fcgi" {
        proxy-core.backends = ( "unix:/var/run/lighttpd/rails-application.sock" )
        proxy-core.protocol = "fastcgi" 
        proxy-core.allow-x-sendfile = "enable" 
    }
}

Using RubyOnRails in a simple-vhost environment¶

Let's say: For an easy setup you want to use simple-vhost but still want to separate the rails-installation:

$HTTP["host"] == "ruby.example.org" {
  server.document-root = "/var/www/site/public/" 
  fastcgi.server = ...
}
$HTTP["host"] != "ruby.example.org" {
  simple-vhost.server-root = "/var/www/servers/" 
  simple-vhost.default-host = "www.example.org" 
  simple-vhost.document-root = "pages" 
}