As mentioned, I decided to give Nginx a try. I have to admit, initial set up is very easy.  I first setup the Rails enviornment and had Nginx proxy to two mongrels for each app.  (I’m running two apps for four total Mongrels).  No problem.

Next, I had to get php working.  Not so easy.

I ended up looking for help and followed this, setting up php5 to run as fast-cgi.  Ugh.  To make things worse, I had to move over the Wordpress install from Godaddy.  I assummed it would be easy as pie, and it was to an extent, but I ran into trouble with the way the virtual hosts configs nginx uses handle subdomains and .. long story short I had redirect loop happening and it just sucked.

I’m blabering on and on here, but in the end I’ve got everything up and running.  We’ll see how Nginx works in the long term, but right now it seems pretty snappy and the memory footprint is much smaller than Apache.

So, Royner and another project of mine have a place to live and I’m just gonna do some final tweaks this weekend and then you can check them out.