[Seaside] Integrating Images on a website. Don't want to use Apache or WAFileLibrary.

[Philippe Marschall]

my words

2008/4/23, Miguel Cobá <m.coba.m at gmail.com>:
> I don't understand the issue with portability in having the static content
> served by a web server (apache, lighttpd, nginx).
> In fact, it is not even practical to deploy an app (used for more than a
> couple users) without a kind of proxy/load balancer in front.
>  You can let the web server do what does the best, serving static content
> and the seaside to to what it does best, to run your app.
>
> Never will Seaside, or comanche or (mongrel in ruby on rails case for the
> matter) be on par with a web server in serving static data.
>  And you don't have to have a lot of user to decide to upgrade from "all in
> the image" to using a "just the app in the image/else on webserver" setup.
> From the very beginning you can use all the cpu cicles used for Seaside for
> your app and not for serving images (that you can't cache in the image as
> you can in a webserver for faster response, ideally, without disk access,
> all served from memory)
>
> Miguel Cobá
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Torsten Bergmann <astares at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in general there are three ways:
> >
> >  1. serve files using an external server/location (Apache)
> >  2. create a WAFileLibrary
> >  3. let the Squeak webserver serve files from hard disk
> >
> > 1. is not good for portability, 2. bloats the image - so 3. may be your
> > option to choose.
> > You can do this either with an WAExternalFileLibrary implementation as
> Holger already explained or by serving the files directly using a file
> serving module for KomHttpServer:
> >
> > For an example either have a look at "Webserver-tbn.4.mcz" in
> "www.squeaksource.com/DeveloperWorkspace" or read
> http://www.shaffer-consulting.com/david/Seaside/GettingSoftware/index.html
> >
> > Bye
> > Torsten
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