Re: Integrating Images on a website. Don't want to use Apache or WAFileLibrary.

> 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@...
> <mailto:astares@...>> 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
>     <http://www.squeaksource.com/DeveloperWorkspace>" or read
>     http://www.shaffer-consulting.com/david/Seaside/GettingSoftware/index.html
>
>     Bye
>     Torsten
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