Simon Willison’s Weblog

Disambiguated URLs with Ruby on Rails. Using before_filter to remove trailing slashes and a few lines of lighttpd configuration to kill the www.

# 24th July 2007, 3:18 pm / disambiguated, lighttpd, nowww, rails, rubyonrails, urls

mod_magnet (via) lighttpd module that will be included by default in version 1.5—it lets you write Lua scripts that can hook in to any phase of the request, including URL rewriting and content generation.

# 6th April 2007, 10:12 pm / lighttpd, lua, modmagnet

Quick Django Benching. Django under Apache/mod_python outperforms nginx/FastCGI and LightTPD/FastCGI once you ramp up the concurrency levels. My setup for this site (Apache/mod_python behind an nginx proxy, with nginx handling static files) should give the best of both worlds.

# 17th February 2007, 4:56 pm / apache, deployment, django, fastcgi, lighttpd, modpython, nginx

Content delivery system design mistakes. Collection of tips for optimising Web server performance. Mentions lighttpd/nginx, Keep-Alive, expires headers, noatime and more.

# 15th February 2007, 11 am / http, lighttpd, nginx, performance

Nginx vs. Lighttpd for a small VPS. My VPS is still running nginx with no problems at all.

# 10th January 2007, 11:31 am / hosting, lighttpd, nginx, vps