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Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.

Posts tagged with nginx

  • Nginx, Passenger and WSGI
    Posted by Oliver on the 24th of June, 2012 in category Tech

    It's a little-known fact that Phusion Passenger, the awesome Rack webserver module, can also competently talk WSGI as well as fit into the Rack ecosystem. This means that not only can you run your Rack and Rails applications through it using Nginx or Apache (or in fact independently, using a cut-down version of Nginx) but also your WSGI-compliant Python applications.

    This has been touched on in various levels of detail on Hongli's own blog, the official Phusion blog, and the Dreamhost wiki, among other sites. You can piece together a working configuration between them but especially relying on the Dreamhost instructions you don't really get a good idea of a generic…

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