[rt-users] standalone_httpd

[Todd Chapman]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:20:50AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 10:12, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:53:56AM -0400, Rich West wrote:
> > > Since the "standalone_httpd" application just popped up with the latest 
> > > RT install (3.4.2), I was wondering.. can this be safely run as the 
> > > "apache" or "rt" user as opposed to running it as root?
> > 
> > It can run as anybody who can get at RT's config files and bind to the
> > port you want to run it on. Do note that it's been there since...RT 3.2?
> > Quite a while.
> 
> Is this efficient enough to use as the standard way of running RT?  It
> might eliminate a lot of installation problems and if you wanted it
> as a virtual host you could easily run on an odd port number and play
> some tricks with Apache's ProxyPass or RewriteRules to hide the fact
> that it isn't the same web server.
> 

Unless things have changed, standalone is single threaded. That means
it can only process one request at a time. If someone runs a long
query everyone else will be waiting.

-Todd