Selecting a web server and an application server
Redmine as a Ruby on Rails web application should be run under a web server. This can be an independent web server (such as Apache, Nginx, or Lighttpd) that runs Ruby on Rails using either Passenger or FastCGI, or a dedicated Ruby web server such as Puma, Unicorn, Rainbows!, or Thin.
A big option list, isn't it? And these are not even all the possible options. Redmine can also be used with JRuby under a Java virtual machine. It can be run under standalone Passenger, under Mongrel, WEBrick, and more. But the previously mentioned options were chosen by practical use, and therefore they are the most common. That's why we are reviewing only those options here.
These options can be divided into three categories: ...
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