Webrick in production

[wi...@willbutton.co]

I understand apache is recommended as the production webserver. From other rails apps I'm familiar with, the driving reason behind this is because webrick is single threaded. As I understand canvas, it's single-threaded as well. If so- what advantages does apache provide in a production setting?

Thanks,

Will

[Nick Kokkos]

Apache or Nginx can serve canvas-lms' static assets with blazing speed. My personal opinion is to never use webrick (only for kid projects).
Serving Canvas-lms with webrick is a nightmare.

[Cody Cutrer]

Will,

Webrick was never intended to be a production web server. It's easy to get set up for purposes of development and testing, but lacks the security and speed necessary of a production install. While canvas is single-threaded, Apache, Nginx, or other production web servers run multiple canvas processes per single web server instance so the single-threadedness isn't really an issue.

Cody Cutrer

Software Engineer

Instructure

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[wi...@willbutton.co]

Nice!
Thanks for the great answers!