It now has been 2 years since Oxyliquit first breathed the air.

Oxyliquit has been the idea of a community platform, however - the diminishing positive response in large attributable to the withering of Nitro and Og support in general leaves me with one laughing and one crying eye.

As this is a completely community driven application, it lives and dies with its community.

That said, I still think Oxyliquit is a good source for Nitro, so it will stay as long as there are still interested people browsing through it, it might however reopen in a slightly different form.

I thank everyone who has ever contributed to Oxyliquit in any way. Thank you.

I'm terribly sorry for showing this RSCDS page the whole week. I do not plan to discontinue serving the Nitro Q&A system anytime soon.

I apologize again for the inconvenience.

Jonathan Buch

If you're using any characters beside those uses in 7-bit ASCII you'll have to think about character encodings. The easiest thing nowadays is usually to make every subsystem use UTF-8. To make Ruby use UT8 add $KCODE="UTF8" to app.rb. Make sure to add it all the way at the top, before loading Nitro. Then "charset=utf-8" will be added to the headers of a html response. If you set $KCODE after requiring Nitro this does not work!

I'm assuming you've installed Lighttpd with the package manager of your distribution of choice. Next you need to enable the fastcgi module.

If you're using Debian or a variant (like Ubuntu) you can use the lighty-enable-mod script:

lighty-enable-mod fastcgi

This will create a symlink from /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf to /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-fastcgi.conf. Open this file in your editor. If this doesn't work for you simply edit the main configuration file /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.

To enable the module you need this line:

server.modules = ( "mod_fastcgi" )

If you find any fastcgi.server portions in the configuration comment them out, we won't be needing them. Now add a fresh portion: fastcgi.server = ("" => (( "bin-path" => "/path/to/app.rb", "socket" => "/tmp/nitro.socket", "check-local" => "disable", "max-procs" => 1, "bin-environment" => ("RUBYOPT" => "-rubygems -I/path/nitro_repo/script -rlib/glycerin") )) )

Issue

sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

and you should be all set. Keep an eye on /var/log/lighttpd/error.log in case stuff doesn't work right.

Adapt bin-environment to whatever is necessary on your site to get nitro running. I'm assuming you're using the repo version. Otherwise a simply "-rubygems" might suffice.

h2. Configuration

# # Using Apache 2.0 and 2.2 as a reverse proxy # for a Nitro application. # # Note that Apache 2.2 offers a load balancing # proxy. Oxyliquit tutorial forthcoming... # # This scheme is based on Apache's NameVirtualHost # feature. The following line should appear # in your httpd.conf file: # # NameVirtualHost *:80 # # Next, add the following. # # You *could* put this directly in httpd.conf. # # But with large numbers of virtual hosts, # it makes sense to have an include directory # under your_apache_install/conf and add this # to httpd.conf: # # Include conf/vhosts/* # # or # # Include conf/vhosts/foo.com # Include conf/vhosts/bar.com # ServerName myhost.com ServerAlias www.myhost.com ServerAlias myalias.net ServerAlias www.myalias.net RewriteEngine On ProxyRequests off ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9001/ ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9001/ ProxyPreserveHost on # If your application exposes administrative URLs that # you want to protect, then you can redirect to an ssl # port on the server. RewriteRule ^/admin(.*) https://admin.myhost.com/admin$1 [L,R] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9001/$1 [L,P] # # If you want an SSL port for secure URLs for your app, # create an additional vhost # # Again, remember to add this somewhere before it: # # NameVirtualHost *:443 # ServerName admin.myhost.com ServerAlias topsecret.myhost.com ProxyRequests off ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9001/ ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9001/ ProxyPreserveHost on AuthName "Restricted Access" AuthType Basic Require user YoursTruly AuthUserFile /top/secret/path/htpasswd AuthName "Restricted Access" AuthType Basic Require group SiteEditors AuthUserFile /top/secret/path/htpasswd SSLEngine on SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4 RSA: HIGH: MEDIUM: LOW: SSLv2: EXP: eNULL SSLCertificateFile /path-to-cert-files/ssl.crt/self_signed.cert SSLCertificateKeyFile /path-to-cert-files/ssl.key/self_signed.key SSLOptions FakeBasicAuth ExportCertData CompatEnvVars StrictRequire