Speeding Up Your Web Site, expire header in apache and lightted

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_expires.html
http://phaedo.cx/archives/2007/07/25/tools-for-optimizing-your-website-etag-and-expire-headers-in-django-apache-and-lighttpd/

gzip compression, apache settings, speed up

http://letmehaveblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/using-gzip-compression-in-web-servers.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html
http://www.blogjava.net/site120/archive/2007/02/16/100073.html

passenger, mod_rails

http://www.modrails.com/install.html
http://ihower.idv.tw/blog/archives/1741
http://nubyonrails.com/articles/ask-your-doctor-about-mod_rails
http://duckpunching.com/passenger-mod_rails-for-development-now-with-debugger
http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html

1. Open a terminal, and type:

   gem install passenger

2. Type:

   passenger-install-apache2-module

3. /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
   LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.3/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.3
   PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
   
   RailsEnv development <= development mode, default is production mode
4. /etc/apache2/sites-available/iwakela
   
<virtualhost>
ServerAdmin iwakela@localhost

ServerName iwakela.local
DocumentRoot /home/lake/rails_app/iwakela/public
</virtualhost>

5. sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/iwakela /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-iwakela
6. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart/start/stop
7. /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 iwakela.local

enable debugger

8. 
   # ... bottom of your development.rb
   
   if File.exists?(File.join(RAILS_ROOT,'tmp', 'debug.txt'))
   require 'ruby-debug'
   Debugger.wait_connection = true
   Debugger.start_remote
   File.delete(File.join(RAILS_ROOT,'tmp', 'debug.txt'))
   end
   


9. 
   # add this rake file to your lib/tasks folder
   # File: restart.rake
   task :restart do
   system("touch tmp/restart.txt")
   system("touch tmp/debug.txt") if ENV["DEBUG"] == 'true'
   end
   


10. 
    rake restart DEBUG=true
    


11. 
    rdebug -c
    

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