Why Use Passenger?

• Integration
• Simplicity
• Always Ready Applications
• Auto-scaling Processes
• Apps Run as Sandboxed User
• Statistics
• Performance

Why Not?

Performance

Overview

• Installation
• Web Servers
• RHEL & CentOS
• Languages

Installation

• Yum
• Apt
• Source
• OS X
• Docker

RHEL & CentOS

# Install EPEL and other other prerequisites
$ sudo yum install -y epel-release pygpgme curl

# Add our el6 YUM repository
$ sudo curl --fail -sSLo /etc/yum.repos.d/passenger.repo \
https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/yum/definitions/el-passenger.repo

# Install Passenger Nginx
$ sudo yum install -y nginx passenger

# /etc/nginx/conf.d/passenger.conf
passenger_root /some-filename/locations.ini;
passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;
passenger_instance_registry_dir /var/run/passenger-instreg;

$ sudo service nginx restart
$ sudo passenger-config validate-install
 * Checking whether this Phusion Passenger install is in PATH... ✓
 * Checking whether there are no other Phusion Passenger installations... ✓

Web Servers

• Heroku
• Standalone
• Apache
• Nginx

Languages

• Ruby
• Python
• Node.js
• IO.js
• Meteor

Nginx Ruby Conf

# /etc/nginx/conf.d/app.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name yourserver.com;

    # Tell Nginx and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is
    root /var/www/myapp/code/public;

    # Turn on Passenger
    passenger_enabled on;
    passenger_ruby /path-to-ruby;
}

$ sudo service nginx restart

Nginx Python Conf

# /etc/nginx/conf.d/app.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name yourserver.com;

    # Tell Nginx and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is
    root /var/www/myapp/code/public;

    # Turn on Passenger
    passenger_enabled on;
}

$ sudo service nginx restart

Nginx Node.js Conf

# /etc/nginx/conf.d/app.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name yourserver.com;

    # Tell Nginx and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is
    root /var/www/myapp/code/public;

    # Turn on Passenger
    passenger_enabled on;
    # Tell Passenger that your app is a Node.js app
    passenger_app_type node;
    passenger_startup_file app.js;
}

$ sudo service nginx restart