Mongrel2 Manual Installing, Deploying, Managing, Hacking

Mongrel2 Manual
Installing, Deploying, Managing, Hacking

Zed A. Shaw
Guillermo O. “Tordek” Freschi

July 2010

Contents
Preface
Typography
1 Introduction
1.1 Language Agnostic
1.2 Asynchronous
1.3 Message Protocol
1.4 Application Oriented
1.5 Automated Management
1.6 Using This Manual
2 Installing
2.1 Install Dependencies
2.2 Getting Mongrel2
2.3 Building And Installing
2.4 Testing The Installation
2.5 Up Next
3 Managing
3.1 Model-View-Controller
3.2 Trying m2sh
3.3 A Simple Configuration File
3.4 How A Config Is Structured
3.5 A More Complex Example
3.6 Routing And Host Patterns
3.7 Deployment Logs And Commits
3.8 Control Port
3.9 Multiple Servers
3.10 Tweakable Expert Settings
3.11 SSL Configuration
3.12 Configuring Filters (BETA)
4 Deploying
4.1 Mongrel2 Deployment Requirements
4.2 The Plan
4.3 Step 1: The Deployment Area
4.4 Step 2: The mongrel2.org Configuration
4.5 Step 3: Setup procer
4.6 Step 4: Static Content
4.7 Step 5: Testing And Troubleshooting
4.8 Further Improvements
4.9 Deployment Tips
5 Hacking
5.1 Front-end Goodies
5.2 Introduction to ZeroMQ
5.3 Handler ZeroMQ Format
5.4 Basic Handler Demo
5.5 Async File Upload Demo
5.6 MP3 Streaming Demo
5.7 Chat Demo
5.8 Extended Reply Format
5.9 Writing A Filter (BETA)
5.10 Other Language APIs
5.11 Writing Your Own m2sh
5.12 Config From Anything: Experimental
6 Contributing